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Even within the fastest-growing states, hiring has been tightly packed in just a few cities, leaving most residents feeling glum.

AT LOT of American economic writers seem pretty glum about the state of the economy right now, and it's not that hard to understand why.

Indeed, no one seems to know how they can be restarted. The mood among moderates on both sides is as glum as ever.

On the question of who pays for all these drugs, the feeling at the meeting was glum but not despondent.

All this is breeding a sense of stagnation that compounds the glum mood of the middle class.

"I have more concerns about potential risks and vulnerabilities than most people, " he said, with glum understatement.

GM's current range, with the exception of glamorous, if questionable, sports cars like the latest Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, make glum viewing.

DURING his annual state-of-the-nation speech earlier this month, President Thabo Mbeki acknowledged that many South Africans feel glum.

I suspect it was her death that contributed to a public impression of Merton as a glum, even tragic soul.

The main shopping street had become a glum passageway of shuttered storefronts.

In the wardroom, he ate so little and looked so glum that his officers kept exchanging glances.

When it rains on the weekend I feel glum, so I go to bed and read a romance novel.

Neither concession materialised, which may explain Mr Zelaya's slightly glum appearance during the signing ceremony in Colombia.

He was sitting with his back toward the stern, looking glum and holding his left hand in his right.

So, if you are feeling flat, glum, irritable, grumpy or been way too serious lately, then this months dare is perfect for you.

This vow to tackle something voters dislike was consciously intended as a change of tone, after much glum talk of austerity.

Everyone has a soft spot for Eeyore, so celebrate this candy-filled day with a costume that's anything but glum!

NATIONS, like people, occasionally get the blues; and right now the United States, normally the world's most self-confident place, is glum.

We held silence for an endless time, while Mr. Glum's electric torch came back, playing across windows of the Main Hall.

The Republicans, knowing that they had been trapped, looked glum.

To make use of a trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked glum. The people saw this.

The discovery raises the prospect of employers screening out applicants who take a glum view on life.

U. S. stocks fell after the Fed's Beige Book was released, while Treasury debt prices rose on its glum economic outlook.

On the morning of July 1st, the first day of the new fiscal year for most states, taxpayers had reason to be glum.

My grandfather's glum genes , which skipped my merry father , have reflowered in me as a major, all - purpose anxiety .

For the time being, however, a stalemate prevails, with Gazans as glum as before.

Don't sit at home moping, this will get you nowhere - going out and getting some fresh air will take your mind off feeling glum.

This one, with an electro loop and hand claps, doesn't sound as glum as its title portends .

Time and again, when Americans have felt particularly glum, their economy has been on the brink of a revival.

That's the glum conclusion of most Americans surveyed in the latest National Journal poll.

We go through cycles of self-delusion, sometimes too giddy and sometimes too glum .

s to the possibility of getting dropouts back on campus, the outlook was glum .

Farmers may yet have reason to be glum again.

We know that glutamate activates glum and PI3K, but we don't know how, he said.

Now I'm inside the house looking at the rain, it reflected my feelings: glum, sad, melancholy.

Consumer confidence is crucial. If people feel glum, they don't buy baubles.

They are interventionists, says one glum energy sector executive.

We both heard Mr. Glum's voice, in the distance, querulous. And footsteps.

Even that glum forecast may be too optimistic.

GLUM Israelis likened the event to thieves entering in the night.

He looks grey, owlish, bespectacled, and glum.

He was glum when he flunked his exam.

House prices are dropping. No wonder voters feel glum.

Lennar CEO Stuart Miller's glum prognosis for 2008: "We are not expecting market conditions to improve. "

Jessie: Emotional Rescue. Every time I feel glum, that is how I fix it.

But one reason to doubt the glum view is that Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron make a startlingly lovely couple.

Tory tax-cutters left Manchester in glum mood.

And it was glum and gloomy things she put there all those years.

Whether she intended it or not, her posture was such as to afford Mr. Glum a clear view down her shirt.

The BBC evening bulletin was glum and vague.

There are other reasons too why some forecasters are less glum.

Dafeng because the vibration abundant and show Jane things and glum, want to know exactly how think brother heart.

But before I was glum, frustrated and unhappy.

He had a glum face.

"Definitely the cases are on the rise" , says a glum Dr Altaf Bosan, who heads the government campaign.

When I am glum I invariably judge my work to be bad.

"Up now, me bully! " said Mr. Glum. "If you have the scent, go find them! Go! "

With a month to go, Americans may hear a dirge of glum economic news nearly every day between now and the election.

As a result, some bank CEOs are growing glum.

Chewing glum may be a low cost way to change the situation .

Why ar you so glum?

After I watch a sad movie I always feel glum until I have some ice-cream.

And that is something to feel truly glum about.

ARE you glum about brashly commercial holiday seasons?

Fadi: I'm fine here, but why are you lot all looking so glum ?

Why are you so glum?

Why are you so glum ? I have lost my way to my home .

CHAMPIONS of market forces are a glum lot these days, for the most part

Sullenly melancholy; gloomy. See Synonyms at glum

She looked quite glum after she heard the bad news

i must say , you ' re a gloomy - looking bunch . why so glum

when the opposition scores , he looks glum

don ' t be glum . it will stop raining soon