Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what exactly is baseball being saved from? What dire threat requires McGwires and Ripkens to stave off? I sometimes wonder if anyone knows. The standard answer is that the lingering acrimony from the 1994 player's strike--which caused the World Series to be canceled for the first time since 1904--still plagues the game, and that more generally, as Gammons wrote, our generation has abandoned the national pastime for electronic entertainment, or, worse yet, other sports...
...President should resign because nobody--not members of Congress, and not the citizens who elected him--can or should be expected to take his cue anymore. Clinton the man is incapable of carrying the Clinton agenda. On the international scene the situation is equally dire. The only superpower in the world has been reduced to a laughing stock, where extramarital oral sex is the only affair of state. And our foreign policy is nonexistent as a result: We sit idly by as Saddam Hussein builds an arsenal of weapons and Russia crumbles...
...hopes Magic Johnson is enjoying a nice chilled glass of schadenfreude as he reads the reviews of HOWARD STERN's new television show. Stern, who was merciless to the basketballer while Johnson had a talk show, got slapped with the most dire content warning (TV-MA), lower national Nielsen ratings than a nonlive version of rival Saturday Night Live and a DD cup's worth of critical bile for his debut network effort. The show, which featured Stern abusing a female body builder and several guests who were hoping to win free cosmetic surgery, was called "the smelly underpants...
Then what? There are plenty of dire predictions. Moscow is muttering that Yeltsin might declare a state of emergency, a move that would probably be seen as a retreat from democracy. Some are worried that Yeltsin might form a government of national unity that would take in communists and fascists and bring reform to a halt or put it into reverse...
...consequences of elder mistreatment may be more dire than suspected. A study of more than 2,800 senior citizens showed that those abused or neglected were more than three times likelier than their peers to die during a 13-year follow-up period, even adjusting for factors like injury and chronic illness. The findings indicate that mistreatment, researchers say, can be as perilous as many diseases...