Word: dire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...works as Ford hopes, sales would revive, unemployment would moderate and the nation would be much better able to withstand another cutoff of foreign oil, since Americans would be compelled by higher prices to reduce their prodigious waste of energy. But if the program fails, the consequences could be dire indeed. The $16 billion in rebates and tax credits might be too weak to jolt the economy out of its alarming slumpflation; in that case, the nation could suffer a prolonged agony of unemployment rates higher than any since before World War II. In addition, the higher prices...
...Board of Economists was far ahead of most forecasters. As long ago as last February, a majority of the nine board members were warning that the Administration's restrictive anti-inflation strategy would bring on at least a mild recession, and their projections grew ever more dire as the year wore on. Last week most board members agreed that the Administration's switch to a more stimulative policy was a move in the right direction. But, with few exceptions, they are far from elated by the specifics of President Ford's programs...
...original film, interrupted by the tangents of Brooks's imagination and concluded by a resounding coda. Wilder alternates moments of deadpan lucidity with the sudden spasms of pure manic fury that characterize the egotist/neurotic. He turns ordinary comic ineptitude into a thoroughly debilitating frenzy that intensifies as the dire experiment proceeds; the riotous heights of the film...
...prophet cursed the boys "in the name of the Lord," whereupon two bears came out of the woods and tore them apart. More immediate for Christians are the troubling "dark sayings" of Jesus like his warning that "I have not come to bring peace but a sword." One dire command is that a disciple must "hate his own father and mother and wife and children." Literal readings of such passages can lead to such mindless zealotry as that of the Children...
...Finance Ministry goes along with this dire prophecy and calculates that every $180 million in tax cuts by 1980 would indirectly put 4,400 people out of work by forcing revaluations that would damage export industries. The end result would resemble what the Financial Times of London calls the "Venezuelan effect," in which Norway's oil industry would become "the only provider to a population left mainly, otherwise, to cut each other's hair...