Last week, it became clear that the future of General Motors was grim, due to high gas prices, low consumer confidence and the ongoing credit crunch.
While media reactions widely characterized Trump's speech as grim due to its references to "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones" and "American carnage," people who watched the inauguration or later coverage of it are more than twice as likely to consider the event "optimistic" rather than "pessimistic".
The slightly grim guidance, due to increased investments which will go towards hiring more sales people, may have spooked some investors with a distaste for any signs of slowing momentum.
Prospects for a decent pension may be grim for all, due to financial and demographic crises, but they are far grimmer for women, who not only earn less, but retire five years earlier then men (60 and 65 respectively).
Matt Damon plays a former medium (whose visions resulted from a near-death experience) who has retired from the field due to the grim effect of his trade on his inner life: he found that the dead were taking over his life.
This week China allowed an American aircraft-carrier to pay a port call to Hong Kong, just a day before President Obama was due to defy grim warnings and meet the Dalai Lama in Washington.Chinese leaders can be confident that the plight of dissidents and the ever-louder grumbles of foreign businessmen over the barriers they face in China will not keep the world away.
The issue, written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Chris Burnham, was scheduled to go on sale on Wednesday, but on Monday, Mr. Burnham tweeted that the comic would be "delayed a month due to some grim imagery that would seem wholly inappropriate given the Aurora killings".
Due to her grim fate by the end of the series, a destiny that Shinbo believed was slightly unfair, he asked Urobuchi if it was possible to change the plot so that Sayaka could be spared.
Most critics have also commented on the confluence of comedy and sadness in the film's depiction of everyday life in a totalitarian state, although while some consider Loves of a Blonde Forman's most pointed critique of Czech society under communism, others point out that the grim conditions are not solely due to misguided public policy, but that individuals create their own isolation as well.
Patients who are extubated within 24 h after a CA generally have very good outcomes while withdrawal of care within 24 h is generally due to extremely grim prognosis.
Things were looking grim for the Castros, they write, with the economies of their Russian and Venezuelan supporters tanking due to low oil prices and a population making growing demands for human rights.
