Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investment. Consumers may not even be spared from paying for abandoned nuclear operations. Companies like Public Service Co. of Indiana are seeking permission to pass part of their loss on to customers in the form of higher fees. Many antinuclear activists see recent events as confirmation of all their dire predictions. "This is a failed technology," says Melody Moore, director of Chicago-based Citizens Against Nuclear Power. Even businessmen sympathetic to nuclear energy as a source of electric power are pessimistic about its future. "Nuclear power is well into free fall. It's beyond recovery," says John Nichols, president...
When first published in France as Les Mots Pour Le Dire in 1975, the book eluded next classification, wandering through bookstores and across best-seller lists first as fiction, then as documentary. The book's most recent wanderings have taken it across the Atlantic, where a new English translation dubs itself an "autobiographical novel." Cardinal's story is a blend of fact and fiction which sets the past in an imaginary framework, elevating the specific details of an individual life to a universal level...
...purse, the innkeeper says he has learned something about the Yankee tradesman's sense of priorities. If, for ex ample, the Wolfs' prehistoric heating sys tem goes blooey at 3 a.m., the repairman is Johnny-on-the-spot. If, on the other hand, troubles are not dire, fat chance of finding a fixer...
Across the U.S., the Arctic downdraft froze bodies of water large and small, sometimes with dire results. The Snake River in Idaho was stopped up by a ten-mile-long ice jam, threatening floods, and Louisiana's Red River froze up for the first time this century. Coast Guard cutters freed a dozen Lake Erie freighters stuck in 12-ft.-high windrows of ice, and on the frozen Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa, 30 towboats pushing about 430 grain barges are trapped until spring. In the shallow Gulf of Mexico bays from Galveston to Port Isabel, Texas, tens...
Needless to say, I went anyway and did not encounter dire catastrophe. In fact, John was completely wrong about the whole thing. But it is reading period so I decided to forgive John's first miss and see him again. Besides, having your tea leaves read is sort of like reading your horoscope--you don't believe it or change your plans because of it, but it's nice to hear an objective evaluation (albeit an inaccurate one) and some authoritative guidance for one's life...