Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these dire predictions of the consequences of additional teacher layoffs come at a time when the school committee is trying--under a voluntary desegregation plan--to assemble a teaching staff in which the percentage of minority teachers reflects the number of minority students in the system as a whole. Ten years ago the school committee said it hoped to raise the percentage of minority students in the system at the same time. Minority students now comprise 38 per cent of the system's students, according to Lannon, but the percentage of minority teachers has yet to reach the initial...
...criminal defense lawyer, I consider choosing a jury one of the most important and terrifying aspects of a trial because it is my job to make sure those twelve people see my client's side of the case. None of my questions in voir dire is pointless. During that process, it is impossible for me to explain to a juror just why I ask a particular question. Yet when I present my case, I hope the reason becomes clear. Since my client's life is in the hands of those twelve people in the box, I want...
Sometimes, as you know, one is "bumped" on voir dire because he is a reader of TIME...
...There is a very real and growing threat. It is not scare talk or any kind of propaganda." With that dire warning, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger last week released a glossy, 99-page report titled Soviet Military Power. The study, illustrated with maps and photographs, describes in impressive detail the Soviet military machine and its ever growing arsenal of new weapons systems, tanks, missiles, ships, artillery and aircraft. Put together by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the report is the largest and most comprehensive release of declassified intelligence data in the Pentagon's history. Its purpose: to send...
...decade. His Malthusian expectations of too little food for too many people are valid; population growth--without agricultural innovations would ultimately outstrip food supply. Maybe the world squeaked by because Ehrlich's prophecies helped warn nations to limit their ranks; and maybe the world's response to Ehrlich's dire forebodings improved conditions--but probably not. On the whole his book has been accepted as being pertinent, but unrealistic...