Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...JUNIOR Y, SODA 1, whose names-if they are names-twist and bubble on the flat surfaces of our lives like virulent bacteria. No place in the country is safe, but New York City is actually under siege, its walls tottering under the cumulative weight of the lettering. So dire are the city's straits that Richard Ravitch, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has been holding truce talks with the graffitists, who are asking him to concede them ten subway cars for their "artwork" in exchange for leaving the others clean. One artist by the name of CRASH...
...Luther King, writing in 1963 from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama, expressed the central theme of his wing of the civil rights movement: "Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists." But the church of Martin Luther King was the church of an oppressed people. The church of the majority of Americans is the church of comfortable people, and, in some sense, of oppressors. It will be much more difficult to move this church to moral action...
...Salvador is now only about $100 million, it and other Central American nations provide a substantial market for subsidiaries of U.S. companies. And the "hit list" theory propounded by Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig holds that the advance must be checked at every turn or there will be dire consequences for the free world and the natural gas fields of nearby Mexico. If one holds that the El Salvadoran government--and most of the other governments of the region--are intolerably repressive, it is a damning indictment of our multinational economic system. Like pathetic Britain in the dying days...
...assembly line. It merely shows that, according to the Field Research Corp., three-quarters of the people who own VCRs use them to record programs off the air and watch them at a later time. They then re-use the tape, thus erasing the program and undercutting the dire conjectures of the movie companies that VCR owners would stockpile films at home and stop going to the neighborhood Bijou. Some 75% of the VCR owners questioned did admit they had tape libraries, but most meant 15 tapes or fewer. Only 23% said they were building substantial cassette libraries...
...economic consequences of immediate majority rule would be especially dire for South Africa, the most industrialized nation on the continent. Very few Blacks have had access to the education required of industry managers or government administrators. The poverty of now-independent colonies is mute testimony to this point: Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Zaire and Angola are among the poorest countries in the world, and many are debt-ridden or bankrupt. As soon as these states became independent, productivity plummeted and industry rumbled to a halt...