Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gephardt's dire economic warnings seem ill suited for booming New Hampshire. But the Missouri Congressman insists that he does not need a depressed farm economy to sell his brand of downbeat realism. "Even in New Hampshire," he argued in a TIME interview, "there's the feeling that people are not getting ahead economically; they can't buy the house; they can't afford the education. It's more jobs, more work, less income, more debt." In any case, Gephardt does not have the luxury of tailoring his appeal to New England voters. Even though an oil-import...
...Senate reservations about the INF agreement are likely to be outweighed by the dire consequences of rejection. Speaking Friday, Jeane Kirkpatrick, a prominent conservative and former U.S. Representative to the U.N., admitted that she has doubts about aspects of the treaty. But failure to proceed at this point, said Kirkpatrick, would aggravate a deeper problem: fears in Europe that the U.S. has become essentially ungovernable. For the Senate, more is at stake than the treaty on the table...
...outcome is too close to call, and some Washington officials point out that previous votes were also accompanied by dire predictions about the fate of peace in the region. But Republicans and Democrats agree that much will depend on Ortega's performance over the next few days. Two weeks ago, in an eleventh hour attempt to keep a five-month-old Central American peace process alive, Ortega offered several striking concessions, among them promises to lift Nicaragua's state of emergency and to hold direct talks with the guerrillas. Last week he moved to honor those pledges, restoring civil liberties...
...dire condition of the nation's urban school systems is by now a familiar story, but some hard facts and illuminating incidents bear telling...
...farm crisis was indeed real, but current problems are not nearly so dire as movie images would suggest. During the first half of the decade, Iowa farmers were devastated by high interest rates, falling commodity prices and a collapse in land prices, their primary collateral for loans to pay for equipment and seed. But then came a costly federal bailout: the $28 billion 1985 farm bill. Aided by a falling dollar that spurred agricultural exports, farm income soared by 30% between mid-1986 and mid-1987. "Farmers are making strides," concedes Neil Harl, a professor of agriculture at Iowa State...