Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That renewed oil industry doubts about OPEC's ability to live up to its decrees. During a cordial but "extremely frank" meeting, as one participant described it, ministers from Iran, Venezuela and Algeria lambasted their Nigerian colleague for helping to set off the crisis. Citing Nigeria's dire economic woes, Oil Minister Tarn David-West rebuffed pressure to restore his country's petroleum price or to cut its production target "by even one barrel." Said he: "Oil is the life of Nigeria. The Nigerian heart must pump...
Five years ago, morale was bad and production worse at the tiny Haiyan shirt factory in Zhejiang province, 69 miles from Shanghai. The enterprise was in such dire condition that workers who were ready to retire could not do so because of an empty pension fund. The value of the plant's assets totaled only $10,000, and profits rarely topped...
Your story on overpopulation propagates a myth that serves to justify abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. The facts simply do not support your dire assertions. If all the people of the world were brought together in one place, they could stand, without touching, in less than...
...reason for the unprecedented turnabout is the dire effect the channel has had on the complex ecology of South Florida. The Kissimmee is a strand in the northern section of the extensive tangle of the region's streams and rivers. Some of the waters, including the Kissimmee, feed into the gigantic water system that supplies drinking water for the 4 million inhabitants of southern Florida. Others snake off to submerge the Everglades and nurture its water-loving fowl and alligators. When the 200-ft.-wide, 30-ft.-deep channel was completed and the Kissimmee's annual overflow...
When American troops entered Italy during World War II, they found the economy in dire straits. The resilient Italians survived by selling black-market goods to one another. Americans will soon be playing a variation on the Italian ploy. They will survive by serving hamburgers and doughnuts to one another. Frank Holan Westminster...