While my intention is not to be grim, some interesting facts are worth studying.
But in my opinion, the outlook for small business does not have to be grim.
The economic outlook may be grim, but people always need to get their teeth fixed.
That really would be grim news, not only for America but for the world.
All this should be grim beyond bearing, yet the film treads carefully, and even lightly, through its tribulations.
This is no comfort as the forecasts continue to be grim, but it is a measure of the complexity of the physics involved - how air moves in waves, why certain patterns form - that more than 60 years later scientists are still wrestling with the question of how the jet stream operates and what shapes it.
The story is likely to be more grim for Japanese insurers, the Insurance Industry Institute figures.
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Britain's latest labour market statistics have again provided happy news - in an environment that would otherwise be rather grim.
Even BBC Parliament Controller Peter Knowles acknowledged that some debates can be "grim to watch" with AMs "typing and fiddling with their computers".
But he can't get away from the fact that it's going to be a grim few years - a grim few years that he has decided he is powerless to confront.
The movie may be a grim warning against the perils of technology and its ability to spew alternative realities, but Cronenberg himself can hardly claim to have his feet firmly planted on the ground.
For public policy to be effective in responding to this grim situation, it needs to be based on a clear understanding of where jobs come from.
What no one dares stop calling the Special Relationship has been defined down the years by images - Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher dancing, George W Bush joking about sharing Colgate with a grinning Tony Blair squeezed into crotch hugging chinos and years later spinning a be-suited and grim-faced Gordon Brown around in a golf buggy.
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But as we know, the grim reality can be entirely different, which is where the real power of graphic journalism lies.
At next week's Sundance Film Festival, she will be seen playing a sexy grim reaper in the quirky Too Tired to Die.
The same quotations might lead the reader to believe that he or she is about to be served up another fashionably grim account of childhood deprivation and misery.
Finding a use for a former bunker with such a grim historical legacy can be difficult.
You can see more about the report State of Nature here but be warned, it's grim reading.
To modern eyes, the scythe may be best known from images of the Grim Reaper and Father Time--or as a weapon used by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The back-to-school outlook for European handset market is grim indeed, and it may be further blighted by consumer anticipation for the likely October launch of the new iPhones.
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For 30 days, each morning I would walk through the city, stopping to buy my baguette and coffee, pretending to be offended when the waiter laughed as my grim attempt at French was replaced by sign language.
An interim technocratic government might be appointed, or Italy might even face the grim prospect of another general election.
LucasArts, however, will always be revered for many of its past works, including Grim Fandango and the Monkey Island series.
If the world economic recovery is indeed delayed, then even the grim budget forecasts made by the chancellor could be too optimistic.
But he will never be prime minister, let alone a Byronic hero of grim aspect and sardonic humour, until he rushes upstairs with an axe.
Retirement can be awfully dull, and there is no guarantee that the grim reaper will make it on time.
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But Seepersad Naipaul appears to be the only human to have ever pierced his son's grim disaffection with the world.
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