Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their homes that Charef succeeds in creating the most human and moving scenes. A picture of bustling, cheerful life on the surface of dire poverty and sickness invents completely the characters of Madjid's family and makes the audience care about them. Madjid's mother, Maika, bubbles over with the life-force that feeds and clothes her five young children, Madjid and the neighbor's child, as well as taking care of her husband, who has apparently had a stroke that has rendered him helpless. The contrast between Maika's helathy cheer and her husband's thin and trembling weakness...
...burnished it by losing battles to commercialism and belatedly denouncing his betrayers. He died young: he was 57 when he succumbed to the lung cancer brought on by a four-pack-a-day cigarette habit, a vice he could not kick even while actually on air reporting the dire effects of smoking. His early death only heightened his romantic aura. HBO's docudrama Murrow, which aired in January, all but shouted that when he died, TV journalism lost its morality, its courage and its soul...
...Home Builders warns of a sharp decline in housing starts, and the National Apartment Association predicts that rents would have to increase an average of 32.7% to make up for lost write-offs. Tax shelters for oil and gas drilling, however, were largely spared because of that industry's dire condition and political clout. Most businesses are finding that the new tax proposal is a mixed bag of helpful and hurtful surprises. Stockbrokers, for instance, would lose IRA business but would pick up investment money that might otherwise have gone into tax shelters. Automakers might suffer a bit because...
Overblown press stories and Rifkin's rhetoric about the two cases have raised the specter of re-engineered microbes escaping into the environment with dire consequences. But most scientists are convinced that neither the Biologics viral vaccine nor the A.G.S. bacteria pose any threat to man, beast or plant...
While that statement heartened U.S. oil drillers, along came a more dire forecast by Mani Said al-Oteiba, the Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates. He declared OPEC--the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries--to be in disarray and predicted that prices could fall as low as $5 per bbl. His remarks helped send the price of West Texas Intermediate, a benchmark crude, tumbling to $9.75 per bbl. Tuesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange...