Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion. That could make it virtually impossible for the cash-strapped country to meet payments on the $97 billion it owes to foreign countries. Some economists now estimate that Mexico stands an 80% chance of defaulting on its mountain of debt. Several experts say that conditions are already more dire than in 1982, when a temporary Mexican default sent ripples of panic through the international financial system...
...last week that among other things detailed what other governments in other times have done. In 16th century Japan, according to Koop, tobacco users were jailed, while in 17th century China anyone possessing the offending weed could be beheaded. All things considered, the restrictions against smoking today hardly seem dire...
...Kiely is optimistic that her groupcan show the city, the University and theArchdiocese the benefits each can receive byhelping to build her project. But most important,she says, are the benefits that will be derived bylower-income families who are in dire need ofassistance. "We need to stop this trendsomewhere," she says, nothing the proliferation ofconstruction in Harvard Square catering toupper-income clientele. "If everything is given tocondominiums, the result is more ghettos...
Reagan portrayed a dire situation in Central America should the Contra forces lose American assistance...
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