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.
It's not news that the population is aging, but it's generally seen as a grim problem and a costly burden.
It is a grim context for a return to civility, but an encouraging sign of potential cooperation as Japan pursues its rescue and recovery efforts.
The imminent monsoon may turn a grim ordeal into a disaster.
The official figures paint a resolutely grim picture of a country where a quarter of the workforce cannot find a job, and where almost half of young South Africans are without work.
Jeffrey Bell, policy director for the American Principles Project (which this columnist professionally advises), presents a compellingly grim scenario in a recent column, entitled Losing Streak: The Democratic Ascendency and Why It Happened, in The Weekly Standard.
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Why spend money on lawyers to fight over a movie that the L.A. Times called "nightmarish" and The New York Times called "grim to a level that many film executives say they have rarely seen on film"?
In the work sector, employees are just generally feeling grim, a reason for the steep decline.
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Telecom equipment share are selling off hard Thursday following a grim Q2 warning from Calix, a provider of broadband communications access gear.
Although the overall U.S. employment picture remains grim, a net 4% of respondents said they planned to add professional staff in the second quarter (that is, 10% said they'd be increasing their staffs and 6% said they'd be decreasing them, while 82% predicted no change).
Sharp is facing a grim future of difficult choices, squeezed by a worsening cash crunch at the largest Japanese maker of liquid-crystal displays.
Lang and his father moved into Fengtai, a grim neighborhood of Beijing, where they occupied a studio apartment a hundred feet square, with bunk beds, a piano, a tiny galley kitchen, and no heat.
Told from here, from this hard bench that is both bed and chair, table and couch, inside walls and bars painted a dark gray like a grim parody of jail, the story has a different ring than it would if I could tell it from the desk in my office.
While the survey painted a grim picture of the economic crime landscape, there were a few bright spots.
For a day or two, Errol will look grim and spend a lot of time in the betting shop.
Against such a grim background, Europe's big producers can thank a series of lucky breaks for their relative prosperity.
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"In a grim budget environment, sticking with an existing aircraft is a good way to preserve cash for other priorities, " he added.
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For Rubin, whose only alternative was a grim local high school, Bronzeville appears to have given him a new-found sense of confidence.
Despite a grim prognosis, he battled gamely for the best part of a week before a decision was taken that he should not be allowed to recover from an anaesthetic on humane grounds.
It makes a grim story, and there are plenty of gloomy analysts who predict a similar fate for Italy.
Consumer spending was hurt and millions of Chinese dawned facial masks as a grim part of life in 2003 when the country was the epicenter of a global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that killed several hundred people worldwide.
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It is a grim account of what's in store, and at odds with a large portion of scientific opinion that contends that if we take action now to cut carbon emissions, we can at least mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change.
Such a grim assessment has been informed by, among other data, the results of a poll of serving military personnel (as opposed to civilians) conducted by the Military Times.
There's a grim precedent: one of India's greatest painters, MF Husain, was literally hounded into exile for drawing a Hindu goddess naked.
Indeed, it's a tacitly grim, as well as hilarious, picture of a couple struggling to make their marriage work, just as Ben and his achievement-free buds are a sharply comic reflection of American adolescence as a lifelong career.
This exodus of talent only worsens a grim outlook for the company in 2013.
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Today, the Cagsawa Ruins is a tourist site and a grim reminder of Mount Mayon's danger.
How many confirmed coffee drinkers have found themselves staring down a grim packet of fruity tea?
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This traumatic event permeates the narrative--a grim reminder that great enterprises may demand great sacrifices.
Those who are most suspicious of the militant republicans have a grim scenario in mind.
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