Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much admired [March 8], for he is one of the few in Government willing to bear the responsibility for long-term economic recovery. Volcker realizes that stopgap increases in the money supply offer no solution. It took the U.S. 40 years to reach this dire economic situation. We cannot expect instant and painless recovery...
...both the U.S. and China, the change in course was dictated by what former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has called a "dire necessity": dealing with the menace posed to both nations by the Soviet Union. The U.S., trying to disengage itself from the war in Indochina, perceived China as a potential partner in countering the growth of the Soviet military presence in Asia. China, after more than a decade of hostility toward the Soviet Union, had witnessed with alarm the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the violent clashes along the Sino-Soviet border...
...that has never been written and never is to be written." Genocide is an expensive attempt to give the lie to the Fuhrer, to write and rewrite that chapter, recalling everything and forgiving nothing. But in this film, memory and ambition ultimately collide. The 6 million deserve more than dire prophecy and less than an overproduction...
...matter how you account for King's fondness for President Reagan and his policies, their close ties could prove politically devastating. Other executives have been issuing dire warnings, adjusting revenue projections, and lobbying in Washington for relief King has, in effect, chosen to ignore the significant changes that Reagan has slated for federal state relations--most notably the proposed dumping of massive aid programs onto the states. King has asserted that "there were will be not winners and losers" under the New Federalism. Accordingly, he has drawn up a 1982 state budget that assumes an increase of $38 million...
...perhaps stereotypical-male attitudes toward pregnancy, but it also includes volumes of hand-me-down ideas about the traditional maternal look. To look pregnant is to look bowed in the middle, practically bulbous; to be pregnant is open physical defiance of prevailing fashion form. The usual course around these dire sartorial straits has been to sail into great billowing garments of soft prints that try to exalt maternity by sentimentalizing it. The expectant mother, shrouded in a calf-tickling Laura Ashley fantasy, becomes a late-Victorian artifact, like a sprite from a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph. A woman who wanted...