Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Perlman president of Suffolk University at the press conference where the report was released is the amount of money the state provides for grants in relation to loans. Noting that students are expected to pay back $15 in aid for every $1 they are given he portrayed the "dire economic burden of debt" Some graduate students have a $20,000 debt along with their degrees...
Although Epps said Harvard has occasionally helped straighten out the financial messes of students groups in the past, the new effort represents a more comprehensive attempt at helping all campus groups, not just those in dire need...
...that it could lead some readers to the sort of simple-minded defeatism summarized by the slogan "Better Red than dead." Better still to be neither Red nor dead, and that too is a choice available to us. Yet that choice gets lost in the apocalyptic musings and dire warnings of Schell's final chapter. He seems to think that we are moving ever closer to the brink, and only a radical reform of the world order will save...
Most towns requesting some sort of over ride have done so out of dire financial need, and rejection by voters may favor the severs cuts of employees and programs In Canton, where voters defeated a partial over-ride referendum by a three to two margin. Executive Secretary Gerard C. Kelly said yesterday. "We are hurt very badly. "As a result of the no vote. "We are not spending a dime for road management," he said...
...auto companies and their workers have been very imaginative in dealing with the economic predicament that they face. They have taken some vital first steps toward changing the outmoded wage scales and work rules that helped put the industry in its present dire condition...