Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only one catch--as a home movie of Supermom reminds her son later that evening--you can't mess with the locals and keep your Kryptonian powers. Don't be too quick to criticize, though; if you saw Margot Kidder in a bathrobe, you too might forget about the dire state of world affairs for a few minutes...
After listening to praise for their academic achievements and enjoying poetry and Bach, members of the Harvard and Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa chapters yesterday heard a dire warning of impending nuclear disaster at their annual Literary Exercises...
...result was a redistribution of the income-tax burden from the poor to the rich--a fact that directly contradicts the dire predictions of Reagan's critics. By 1925, the 44 per cent of the taxpayers at the lowest end of the scale were actually removed from the rolls through a personal exemption. From 1921 to 1925, the share of the tax burden paid by those earning less than $10,000 fell from 22 to 4 per cent. In contrast, the share of the taxes paid by the over $100,000 class rose from 28 to 49 per cent...
...Long Island duckling, the little shrimp of New Orleans, the crab of San Francisco, an aspiring caviar, even snails, frogs' legs and truffles from la Californie. Speaking of la Californie, G-M advise you to drink its wines by all means. The Californians, led-cela va sans dire-by French and Italian growers, have won global respect...
...could dispute Kania's claim that the economy was in dire straits. With a $27 billion foreign debt, runaway inflation and falling production, Poland was on the verge of economic collapse. Panic buying aggravated an already critical food shortage; practically nothing was available except beans and vinegar. New rationing measures seemed imminent when the government announced that it had only twelve days of food supplies left. Both the U.S. and the European Community offered to send foodstuffs and financial aid; the announcements were obviously timed to encourage a peaceful resolution of the latest crisis...