Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, things aren't as dire as they might sound, since senior co-captain Todd Meringoff is returning from an injury that kept him out of the majority of last season. Meringoff, who won the Rolex Championships in the fall of 1992 and 1993, should certainly pick up a lot of the slack, as will others...
...civilian targets, from the firebombings of Dresden and Tokyo during World War II to the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia. Taking down a country's air-traffic control or phone systems might be done cleanly with computers-but it still represents an attack on civilians. Economic warfare can be as dire as other forms of war, as embargoes have shown. With its fancy technology, infowar may be able to avoid some of the battlefield's lethal, bloody and dirty traditions. But the words of William Tecumseh Sherman will still apply: "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine...
...edge of a dangerous frontier--battling the forces of the Grinch, the forces of darkness. It was a typical old flower-child battle for the forces of good and mercy and gentleness and mischief. You can't work that frontier without getting into some danger now and then. The dire wolf finally...
...study done for Democrats this spring reveals that voters are able to identify Republicans as the party of the privileged, but are unable to say who the Democrats represent. So dire is the Democrats' identity crisis that Clinton's Cabinet has begun to rebel, sometimes accusing the President of lacking leadership. "There's a real crisis here," says a Cabinet officer and longtime Clinton ally. "It's a crisis of confidence about what the Democrats stand for and what is their guiding principle. The Democrats have lost confidence in themselves...
...Milosevic may not be able to stay aloof, and Tudjman may reach for too much. If the situation of the Krajina Serbs becomes truly dire, nationalists in Serbia will press Milosevic to act. "I don't expect Milosevic to come to the rescue of the Krajina Serbs unless there is a barbaric massacre or the blowing up of churches by the Croats," says one State Department official. "That would put him under tremendous pressure." Thousands of refugees now pouring into Serb-held lands in Bosnia could also provoke sympathetic outrage in Serbia...