Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the overall results of the contra campaign are difficult to determine, it is having a dire effect in some areas. Rancho Grande, a hamlet of wooden and tin-roofed dwellings in the coffee-growing region of Matagalpa, 35 miles from the Honduran border, was struck by the rebels last week. Two members of the local militia force, numbering about 25, were killed, along with a French microbiologist, Pierre Grosjean, 32, who was visiting the area to study leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease. After the Rancho Grande assault, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whose brother Daniel is coordinator...
...object of the conference was to promote cooperation between the public and private sectors in maintaining the nation's bridges, highways and sewers--many of which are in dire need of repair, explained Winthrop Knowlton '53. Director of the Center...
...open debate--debate which focuses this time on the highly deleterious effects of acid rain and the nuclear arms buildup. Of the three Canadian films censored by the Justice Department, two deal with the certifiably damaging effects of acid rain, and one, featuring activist Dr. Helen Caldicott, addresses the dire need for a curb on the ever-escalating arms buildup...
Even if the White House's assessment of the Salvadoran army's dire straits is correct, sending more advisors and funds will be at best ineffective, at worst catastrophic. Presumably, the Administration has no illusions about routing the leftists; the overwhelming majority of military experts affirm this is an impossible dream. So Washington no doubt hopes only to keep the rightist government in place as long as possible. The advisors and funds are nothing more than temporary measures that demonstrate an acute lack of long term vision...
...than 100 million people who ordinarily hover in front of the screen during prime time in this peak viewing month, will swim way from this costly bait? "hat they may be lured instead by Dallas or Magnum, P.I. on CBS, or Hill Street Blues on NBC? That they may (dire thought) turn to cable or flip on a video game? Or just decide to read Jane Austen? Of course it is. The bottom of the rating charts is Uttered with such failed mini-series as King, The French Atlantic Affair, MacArthur and Beggarman Thief. "Obviously The Winds...