Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President start handling the crisis? Indeed, as Dole spoke, Gingrich pointed to a precipitous slope indicating Medicare insolvency by the year 2002. And then the questions began. Why, reporters asked, didn't Dole and Gingrich do anything about Medicare in the past when the situation was equally dire? "He wasn't the majority leader, and I wasn't the Speaker," Gingrich said defensively. Would Republicans use Medicare cuts to balance the budget? Said Gingrich: "Some people in this city have a budget psychosis." Less than 15 minutes after they started, the duo fled from the Senate broadcasting studio. Said Dole...
...greatest problem facing the nation today is not drugs, crime, AIDS or poverty. The most dire threat to our society consists in the fact that so many people are content to let others make decisions for them. From the activistic heights of the '60s, we have reached the apathetic lows...
Thank you for writing about this important and dire issue. He's so tacky! I hope you take my advice, which I have mulled over for hours and hours. There are several ways you could inform your "fellow Cliffies" about Joe's disgusting behavior. 1) Take out an advertisement in the Crimson. We have an enormous (but indeterminate) circulations, and you would reach most of your audience eventually by word of mouth. This costs money, however. 2) Put up banners in as many house dining halls as possible explaining Joe's exploits. If you use computer lab paper, this would...
...similar waltz the following year led to more dire consequences. The tastes of that certain orchestra had surpassed champagne to more concentrated pleasures such as cognac and single-malt Scotch...
...dean will find HBS in much less dire straits than McArthur did. We hope that the dean will continue McArthur's custom of constantly talking to students and faculty and giving their concerns equal priority. McArthur's move to integrate and involve HBS with its surrounding communities also set a commendable example...