Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...network that is being acquired by Capital Cities Communications is hardly in dire straits. Since the mid-1970s, when it vaulted from last to first in the prime-time ratings, ABC has proved to be a skilled and tenacious competitor. "I think their problems have been overstated," says Fred Silverman, who ran the network's programming department during its boom years of the 1970s. "My guess is that ABC's performance at this point is a temporary blip. You'll see them bounce back...
...search widens. In Washington on Friday, Mexican Attorney General Sergio Garcia Ramirez met with Edwin Meese, his U.S. counterpart, on future joint drug-control operations. Meanwhile, on Highway 111 near Camarena's home in the California town of Calexico, a billboard put up by his friends carried a dire message for those who are thinking of crossing the border...
...consequences of Harvard's newest housing policy could be dire. In 1970, for example, City Councilor Saundra Graham marched on Harvard and disrupted Commencement ceremonies largely in protest against the University's real estate policies. Fifteen years later, it's a new twist on an old theme: Harvard's reprehensible real estate dealings with the community. Now the city is planning a whole host of schemes to retaliate against Harvard, not the least of which is a citywide referendum on next November's ballot asking people to comment on Harvard's real estate dealings. Either the University should immediately halt...
...recent years, of all ideological stripes, who have made the perfectly reasonable decision that federal office is not financially viable. (One has to wonder about Geraldine Ferraro's present feelings along this line.) Washington is an expensive city; the long-term consequences for our political leadership may indeed be dire if the constant attacks by national journalists (presumably, well-paid) on the financial dealings of political appointees do not assume a more rational base...
...proves only that those outraged by abortion, then as now, understood that abortion was a crime in which often the woman would be victimized almost as much as the unborn child. Also, since 36 of the states had abortion laws that were "strict," allowing exceptions only in the most dire life-threatening circumstances, and sometimes not at all, it is hard to make the case that these old statutes were not motivated by concern for the fetus. Even Justice Blackman, in his decision overturning these, laws, conceded the states' interest in preserving prenatal life, although he said that for some...