Word: dire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's food-price announcement definitely did not quiet angry voices in Congress and the labor movement that are calling for far more drastic action. Said Representative Leonor K. Sullivan, a Missouri Democrat: "The President, after issuing dire warnings about the dangers of controlling meat prices, did it. How can we believe all these dire warnings about the dangers of controlling interest rates and other areas?" Like her, Congressmen and labor leaders have become convinced that the only way to stop a debilitating new round of inflation is for the President in effect to declare his entire Phase...
...tradition, nobody outside the service was supposed to know C's real name; the British government maintained the official camouflage by dissuading the press from ever printing the identity of the M16 director, under threat of enacting the dire provisions of the Official Secrets Act. Nonetheless, newsmen, diplomats, foreign spies, and presumably even the waiters at his London clubs (Brook's and Bath) were aware that for the past four years C was a colorless civil servant named Sir John Ogilvy Rennie, 59, with the innocuous title of Deputy Undersecretary of State...
Zero population growth is the ultimate goal of family-planning groups concerned with the implications of spiraling overpopulation. This marks the first time the U.S. has reached the optimum figure; given the dire Malthusian forecasts advanced by many scientists and sociologists, that is an encouraging sign. It does not mean, however, that population growth will level off significantly in the near future. Since there are now so many young child-producing families in U.S. society, the maintenance of the 2.1 figure really means that the population will level off at around 280 million...
...election of Kidder, on a day further highlighted by the announcement of All-Ivy selections, was perhaps most predictable. Despite dire pre-season predictions about suspect Crimson defense and goaltending, he recorded six shutout performances and posted an impressive 1.23 goals against average. Kidder played a particularly vital role in Harvard's 3-2 double overtime victory over Brown for the New England regionals, stopping a supposedly unstoppable penalty shot. Inexplicably, he was passed over in the All-Ivy voting...
...fact remains that there was a surplus this year, despite all the dire warnings. The unexpectedly rosy picture is not due to an increase in income, although the endowment did go up $100 million to almost $1.4 billion, an expansion partly due to a general surge in the stock market. The University had projected a 6.25 per cent Increase in income, while income actually went up by only 5.11 per cent, though this figure by only may be deceptively low because it represents income made available to operating departments, not money they could have used but didn...