Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain things. If the media now want to call attention to millions of citizens facing despair, starvation, or death by exposure, the President should listen. Rhetorical attempts at martyring himself will not change Reagan's well-deserved image. Nor will they bring the country out of the dire straights into which the President has steered...
Those factory closings--and their dire costs in human suffering and economic productivity--have, however, sparked a boom in one sector of the economy: Economists have been churning out new explanations for America's "deindustrialization" and prescribing solutions to it about as fast as companies have been laying off workers. With The Deindustrialization of America, Boston College's Barry Bluestone and MIT's Bennett Karrison add to this growing literature, which includes everything from Lester Thurow's baleful Zero-Sum Society to the corporatist musings of Felix Rohatyn in the New York Review of Books to Ezra Vogel's jealous...
Perhaps the most damning charge leveled at Weinberger is that, amid all his dire warnings of Soviet intentions and strength, he has lost public support for the defense buildup that he so fervently pushes, as reflected in last month's election. "By being so insistent and unwilling to compromise, he has hurt the consensus for the defense budget," says an Administration official. "He's a great disappointment...
...shaken advisers decided on a different strategy for this year's budget go-around: they would lay out the figures on expected spending and revenues in all their starkness, add much economic advice about the dire consequences of huge deficits, and report numerous warnings from Reagan's own Republican followers about the rebellious mood in Congress. But they would not urge the President to do or not to do anything. Their hope was that Reagan would see the necessity for military-spending cuts or tax increases and bring those subjects up himself...
...faculty favorites. History Professors John Brewere and Simon M. Schama, Britons both and buddies from their Cambridge University salad days, play squash together. Schama says of his colleague. "He is very hard pressed to win, and at crucial moments he goes bounding round the court uttering all manner of dire expletive undeleted. Whereas I, of course, am too naturally shy and retiring to do any such thing...