Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard's largest faculty, is bursting at the seams with the buildings it owns almost completely filled. And much of the space, empty and occupied, is in dire need of repairs...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard's largest faculty, is bursting at the seams with the buildings it owns almost completely filled. And much of the space, empty and occupied, is in dire need of repairs...
Restrictions have already had a chilling effect on some insurers. In the District of Columbia, 42 of the area's top 50 insurance companies, including New York Life and Prudential, have stopped selling life policies because of the blood-testing ban. Other insurers have issued dire warnings about the financial fallout from such testing restrictions. Declares Robert Waldron, director of the New York office of the American Council of Life Insurance: "Individuals will see insurance that costs $1,000 today climb...
Khomeini swiftly learned the value of dire pronouncements that are never actually carried out. The Ayatullah used the 1979-81 U.S. hostage crisis to inflame his own people and cement his revolution. But when Khomeini no longer needed the hostages, he let them go and agreed to drop demands for a U.S. apology and the return of assets of the former Shah. Since the hostage crisis, Khomeini has repeatedly found that a combination of bullying and pragmatic concessions has kept his enemies off-balance. Observes Richard Bulliet, a professor of Middle East history at Columbia University: "Khomeini...
...profits from U.S. weapons sold secretly to Iran had been used to send military supplies to the contras fighting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. But North declared, "I never in my wildest dreams or nightmares envisioned that we would end up with criminal charges." Now faced with that dire possibility through the investigation of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, North made it clear that he had rebelled against his self-described role as the Administration's appointed "fall guy." He would go, all right, but not alone...