Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Best of all, however, Potluck never tries to pass off its apocalyptic weltanshauung as anything more than good fun. The dire message is there for those hungry enough to find it, but the operative word is zany--thus the title song about the supper that features as its chorus the line, "You could bring tuna casserole or even Jello...
...Scottish Highlands. After the meal, they all go tramping through the heather with a pack of pesky corgis nipping at their heels. Not exactly Diana's idea of a giggle. For her the royal sing-alongs with Princess Margaret plinking the ivories just do not compare with listening to Dire Straits on her trusty Walkman...
...Farm Credit System, a network of 37 banks and 708 credit associations that is the largest single lender to American farmers, has joined the ranks of Chrysler and Lockheed in pleading for a federal bailout to save it from collapse. FCS officials last week went before Congress and in dire tones declared that the system needs $6 billion in federal aid to stay afloat. Said Ray Moss Tucker, a Kentucky dairy farmer and the group's chief spokesman: "Our request for assistance is one of the most difficult decisions we have ever made. But we have no choice...
...independent unions that oppose the Sandinistas from within the country. The government fears that all these domestic opponents might band together with the contras in one anti-Sandinista front. That possibility is dismissed by opposition leaders, though in recent months many groups have been emboldened by Nicaragua's dire economic problems, an unpopular military draft and the Sandinistas' drift toward an increasingly authoritarian rule. "Things were coming to a head," says a well-placed Sandinista. "This is a warning shot to the internal opposition. We are not going to be a self-destructive revolution...
...Atlantic and the Pacific, and brought with it the same fear and anxiety that continue to bedevil Americans. Indeed, the reactions frequently border on hysteria, adding ostracism and discrimination to the suffering of the world's AIDS victims. Headlines in Europe have proclaimed the disease's spread with dire warnings of a new plague. This has led Professor Carlo de Bac, secretary of the Italian League to Combat Virus Diseases, to complain that journalists are creating "unjustified alarm and panic worthy of the Dark Ages." But there has been at least one positive result of the increased, if distorted, public...