Word: direness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University and hospital officials issued dire forecasts of imminent research and testing halts as the waste piled up in storerooms; meanwhile, the Cambridge City Council, headed by the always vocal Alfred E. Vellucci, launched an investigation...
...even if the higher price is closer to the actual worth of the land, the city cannot afford to pay it at a time when school programs are being cut and there is a dire need for more public housing. Harvard, again along with the institutions it attracts, acts as a drain on the city's tax base, a drain that is not plugged by the University's modest in-lieu-of-tax payments...
Officers of the W.S.L.F. boast that they control 80% of the Ogaden; they also concede that they have no hope of driving the Soviet-commanded force of 60,000 Ethiopian militiamen, supported by 6,000 Cuban soldiers, from their strongholds in Jijiga, Harar and Dire Dawa. "It is a stalemate," says Hussein Mohamed Nur, the slender commander of the liberation army in the region near Karraro. "They control the big towns, and we control everything else. They never come out unless it is in a big convoy with tanks and armored cars. Then we attack them and destroy many vehides...
...polices, the government must resort to repressive measures. For example, when the Chilean government went full throttle on the "shock treatment" which Harberger's and Milton Friedman advocated on their 1975 visit to Chile, the Christian Democratic Party criticized the approach and called for alternatives that would ease its dire social consequences. In March 1977, the Christian Democratic Party was outlawed...
...quality of their faculties improved during the 1970s. Average full-time enrollment rose 16% at private colleges, to an unprecedented 2.5 million -though tuition is generally costlier at private colleges and universities than at public ones. Also, state support of higher education hit a record $16.5 billion. Despite its dire warnings of trouble ahead, the council characteristically remains "on the optimistic side of pessimism...