Word: direness
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Both parties' comments reflect dire suspicions based in sad history. For decades black radicals -- and especially the Nation -- have appeared prone to paranoia; but events have recurrently proved their fears founded. The FBI's claims about Qubilah Shabazz prompt Turner to recall the '60s and '70s, when "there was a well-orchestrated, high-priority program operating from the FBI to destabilize black organizations that were involved in the civil-rights movement and African-American liberation struggle. This was to be done by planting agent provocateurs, providing false documents and sending bogus letters to the heads of various organizations that would...
What Americans don't understand is that while they have been secretly trying to achieve the collapse and disintegration of Russia -- though they take pains to deny it -- they have only increased the possibility that the tired, exhausted and embittered Russian armed forces may one day explode, with dire consequences -- not only for the U.S. but also for the world. American and NATO military bases still encircle Russia, despite declarations about the end of the cold war. The U.S. military budget keeps growing, along with Washington's combat strength. We monitor this closely. Only naive people who do not know...
...recent emergency housing act signed by Gov. William F. Weld '66 is a conscientious method to case price-fixing itself out of our community. This reprieve provides a two-year adjustment period for the elderly and those in dire financial straits who inhabit rent-controlled apartments...
Oddly, the peso's devaluation actually accents the emptiness of Perot's dire warnings. The "giant sucking sound" was supposed to come largely from an unequal trade flow. Dollars, chasing cheap Mexican goods, would head south faster than pesos headed north, and jobs would follow the prevailing current...
While the pain of poverty has not disappeared, the recent sights in the square indicate that the humiliation has. Begging on the street used to be a last resort. It was a degrading experience to which one would only submit if the need was truly dire...