Word: dire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patricia DiRe, soprano, and William Merrill, piano, will give a concert in The Eliot House Library...
...ruling, the first of its kind, is not binding on other courts, but Justice Leahy issued a "dire" warning to prosecutors across the nation to protect religious freedom. At the courtroom, robed and garlanded Defendant Murphy exulted, "Where there is Krishna there is victory." The victory was not total, however. Legal expenses have crippled Hare Krishna activities in New York, the abductors of Merylee Kreshower have escaped prosecution, and Justice Leahy's words are unlikely to deter deprogrammers elsewhere...
...leaders had talked in considerable detail about the dire consequences to Canada and the U.S. if Quebec did leave the Federation. Would British Columbia, lodged between Washington State and Alaska, want to be part of the U.S.? What of North American defense responsibilities now carried by Canada? Would American business greedily pour into Quebec to get cheap power and labor? It was clearly one of those problems that are so terrible that no responses could really be considered. It just had to be prevented...
Beyond such techniques to reduce the dire consequences of future droughts, University of Nebraska Political Scientist Robert Miewald asked more fundamental questions about the way the nation uses its land. "What really is the problem in Marin County?" he asked his scientific colleagues. "Is it too little water? Or is it too many people? Has the area been developed beyond the capability of its resources to support people?" He suggested that perhaps people should live where water is available rather than haul water to where they want to live...
Never before in this century had the nation been so much at the mercy of its weather. Man, animal and machine in many parts of the country were immobilized under a heavy blanket of snow and ice. A dire shortage of natural gas -long predicted and long ignored -forced the closing of hundreds of schools and businesses and drove tens of thousands of people out of their unheated homes...