Word: direly
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Last Frontier. Dour environmentalists with dire predictions also had their say. Some argued that the oceans will be as "dead" as Lake Erie by the end of the century unless remedial action on an international scale is taken to halt pollution. If present trends to use the Mediterranean as the ultimate receptacle of noxious waste continue, Arvid Pardo said, its fishing industry will disappear in a few years. Swedish Ecologist Bengt Lundholm reported that only 14% of Italy's seacoast is now free of pollution. Dr. Jerold M. Lowenstein, a physician specializing in nuclear medicine, warned that radioactive wastes...
Kissinger's dominance of foreign affairs has produced dire strain between him and the Department of State. No one at State bothers any longer to describe relations between Kissinger and Secretary Rogers as cordial. One State official complains: "Making decisions secretly and at the highest level has always tended to cut out contributions based on specific, regional expertise, and this is happening more frequently and seriously than ever before." The post that Kissinger fills was created by John Kennedy when he became impatient with the cumbersome State Department; he called State "a bowl of Jell-O." Nixon has continued...
...Staffords do not live in dire poverty, but they have few comforts and no spare cash. Home is in an old building in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx, where Stafford, 43, and his wife Geraldyne, 33, grew up. The Staffords live three flights up in a tiny, four-room apartment. Scatter rugs cover the linoleum floors. There are only two closets, so toys and clothes are piled everywhere. The kitchen is jammed with dishes and drying laundry. In the living room, there is a card table -bought with trading stamps-where the family eats...
Crucial Objection. The jury never even knew Clark had arrived to testify. Before they could file into the courtroom, Judge Hoffman excluded them so that Clark could be examined on voir dire, a procedure that permits a judge to determine the admissibility of a potential witness's testimony before he takes the stand. In the examination that followed, Hoffman sustained the Government's objections and refused to let Clark say what his answers would be to 14 of the 38 questions that Kunstler posed. Then the judge sustained the most crucial objection. Accepting the prosecutor's argument...