Word: direly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eliot House Music Society--A performance of Rossini's Petite Messe Solonnelle. With Patricia DiRe, soprano; Maria di Stefano, mezzo-soprano; J. Scott Brumit, bass; J. Stephan Reed, tenor; Gisela Krause, piano; and Wayne Schneider, harmonium...
Harry Reems, actor in three well-known pornographic films, said last night he was prosecuted and convicted for his participation in the film "Deep Throat" under a conspiracy charge that could have dire, widespread implications for civil liberty rights in this country...
...marry her? Will Gambler Jack Klugman, way in the hole and threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of all, will Good Cop Charlton Heston and Stadium Manager Martin Balsam be able to neutralize the sniper without having to turn to the dire methods of Tough Cop John Cassavetes and his blood-hungry SWAT team...
...hear Jerry Ford, the economy is moving onward and upward, recovering nicely (thanks to excellent Republican prescriptions) from deep recession and dire inflation, shaking off the effects of a little setback in the past few months. Says Ford: "We have had a pause. We are now coming out of the dip, and I believe that all, or practically all economists recognize that the economy is continuing to improve and will get better in this quarter...
...unemployment sticks on a high plateau (7.8% in September). Because women and teen-agers are often among the last hired and first fired-and the least trained-their presence in the job market swells the official unemployment rate. And that much headlined statistic tends to exaggerate the image of dire suffering caused by unemployment. In September only 2.5% of those in the labor force had been out of work for 15 weeks or more and .6% for a year or more. The unemployment rate was 5.4% among heads of households* and 6.1% among adult men (aged 20 and over...