Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forecasting firm Data Resources, predicts that even West Germany will spur its economy and increase imports from the U.S. Says he: "The stimulus in Europe will not be because they are being kind to us. It's entirely because they see that their own economies are in very dire need of support. Otherwise they end up having a genuine recession...
That brutal put-down produced angry squawks from the right at a press conference held by the hastily formed Anti-Appeasement Alliance. "If this treaty is ratified," declared Archconservative Howard Phillips, "a major battle of World War III will have been lost by default" -- a dire prediction that suggested Reagan was correct in his assessment. Phillips went on to viciously condemn the right wing's onetime standard-bearer. Reagan, he fumed, "is a very weak man with a strong wife and a strong staff. He has become a useful idiot for Soviet propaganda." Dole and other Republican Senators also lashed...
...might improve its performance. He offers no clue about how the Reserve Board can consistently pursue more stimulative policies without letting inflation get out of control. But what Secrets of the Temple does admirably is explain clearly the difficulties and dilemmas that the Federal Reserve faces -- and the dire results of its mistakes...
Whatever the outcome of the case, hospitalization is unlikely to help many of the homeless. New York faces a dire shortage of beds for the mentally ill. A larger problem, says Robert Hayes, counsel to the National Coalition for the Homeless, is that "when patients lucky enough to get beds leave, they have no place to go." No place, that is, except the street...
...copies of Leaving Home are circulating there. Mavis and I drove up last weekend to see how her Mom's doing after the gallbladder operation. Most everybody was talking about your book (except the Norwegian bachelor farmers, who were not to be diverted from their predictions of a dire winter to come). They had all heard these stories when you told them on A Prairie Home Companion. But radio evanesces. Print is history. It's like going to church: you worry how you look coming in the door...