Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barbara Walters. She says, "The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition." Walters' premise is that only a liberal cares about those in dire straits or has the answer to the problem. How untrue. How unfair. How naive. How typical...
...They've got tuberculosis, Salmonella, all the dysenteries," says Rodger Farr, a psychiatrist who ministers to the homeless of Los Angeles. Those dire circumstances are attracting attention: the U.S. Conference of Mayors and two foundations just announced a $20 million program aimed at delivering medical treatment to the homeless in 14 large cities...
...this majority is forced to live on 14 percent of the land, the ruling government of whites--using apartheid statutes and arrest, torture, secret trials and imprisonment unmatched anywhere in the world--excludes the Black majority from the voting process altogether. For Blacks in South Africa, life means misery, dire poverty, complete political disenfranchisement, slave labor and rule by terror. The white government, moreover, occupies the neighboring state of Namibia in violation of international law and regularly launches raids into Angola...
WHEN TIME magazine writes its annual cover story on the troubles besetting the baby boom generation--soaring divorce rates, disintegration of the nuclear family, alcoholism, mental illness they point to warnings by psychiatrists and sociologists that the consequences of these trends will be "ominous" and "dire" for the children growing up-in these broken homes. And when Mary Robison is not teaching English C at Harvard, she has made it her business to flesh out those troubling statistics in carefully crafted vignettes of family dynamics; what would happen to Holden Caulfield today, if he were in his early twenties...
Western governments had long agonized over the decision. Soviet officials had churned out increasingly dire warnings of what the consequences would be if the decision was made. Step by ponderous step, the issue had grown in importance until it loomed as a fundamental test of wills between the Soviet Union and the 16 members of the NATO alliance. Last week the moment of truth was finally at hand in the protracted East-West war of nerves over the deployment of intermediate-range Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. The first new U.S. nuclear weapons had arrived...