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"We have really enjoyed seven to eight years of a great environment, " she said, but hospitals are now preparing for a much grimmer future.

Now, many seem to be in free fall and the news is likely to get grimmer.

The fiscal outlook is grimmer than before, therefore we should spend less on health care reform than I used to think.

From this point of view, Russia is closer to a grimmer version of Italy than it is to an updated Stalinism.

But that hope has now been crushed under an increasing tide of grimmer and grimmer statistics that seem to portray an economy in free fall.

It was a grim life, grimmer still because it was the only choice open to many.

If lower house prices and a contraction in credit push America into recession, the industry will undoubtedly face a grimmer future.

Let us hope that some of the grimmer aspects of this decade are codas to the last century.

But unimaginable as it may seem, future catastrophes may be far grimmer.

Meanwhile, the long-term fiscal outlook grows ever grimmer.

The information from the Iowa Daily Erosion Project paints a grimmer picture than a recent assessment by federal officials.

Despite the city's towering skyscrapers and ultra-modern Millennium Park, underground the story is grimmer.

If the long term is grim, the short term is grimmer.

But two months into the global financial crisis, things look much grimmer for China.

Although the panic in the credit markets shows signs of abating, the economic news gets ever grimmer.

Things look much grimmer for those in climates that are already quite warm enough.

For the million Spanish families who saw a wage-earner lose their job in 2008, Christmas was a lot grimmer.

The ACFIC found the position the small firms are facing is grimmer than that of global financial turmoil in 2008.

THE prognoses for Pakistan's future grow grimmer by the day.

For one thing, the starting point was even grimmer than realised last May.

The city was facing "grimmer challenges than in the Asian financial turmoil, " Xu Zongheng said.

The chances of avoiding that tightening now look grimmer.

When the sub's escape hatch is blocked by debris from an undersea earthquake, the situation becomes even more grimmer.

America's role in Cambodia became even grimmer duringthe 1980s, after the Khmer Rouge were driven from power by a Vietnameseinvasion force.

In Europe and Japan the situation is far grimmer.

Reality suggests a grimmer diagnosis, but not one for which either the left or the right has produced a cure.

The fate of girls on the streets is even grimmer than that of boys.

The attached email is grimmer still.

Things could yet get a lot grimmer.

Those seeking even grimmer times can visit the Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, where they can see old KGB cells.

Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) reported a $2. 5 billion quarterly loss Friday, which was actually better than Wall Street's grimmer projections.

It gets grimmer.

In Asia the mood has been grimmer as Japan and Hong Kong have lost about half of their value.

"The rowhouses had been darkened by the rain and looked meaner and grimmer than ever" (Anne Tyler)

As a fallen angel, and then a vestige, his magics have grown ever grimmer and more distasteful;

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