Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...persistent secret, silent and pernicious, intimate and brutal. Now, however, as a result of the Simpson drama, Americans are confronting the ferocious violence that may erupt when love runs awry. Women who have clung to destructive relationships for years are realizing, like Dana, that they may be in dire jeopardy. Last week phone calls to domestic-violence hot lines surged to record numbers; many battered women suddenly found the strength to quit their homes and seek sanctuary in shelters. Although it has been two years since the American Medical Association reported that as many as 1 in 3 women will...
...many East Europeans the age of freedom is turning into the worst of times since World War II. Eastern Europe is going through a health crisis of dire proportions: demographers and health officials report rates of death and childlessness on a scale normally seen only in wartime. Ailments of both body and mind are near epidemic magnitude. In several countries, including Russia, the population is actually shrinking. "The drop is catastrophic" says Regine Hildebrandt, family minister in the state of Brandenburg government. "It is like...
Despite this progress, the global population situation is far more dire than it was back then. In 1974 the world had roughly 3.9 billion people and was growing by 80 million a year. Since then the world's population has grown nearly 1.7 billion, and it now increases 90 million annually. Today the Green Revolution falters, ecosystems are badly degraded and fresh-water supplies continue to shrink. It is open to question whether the world can feed the 3 billion to 5 billion mouths that will be added during the next 50 years.Refugees produced by population pressures in Africa...
...years ago, the acting director of theHarvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services,Richard S. Steen (no relation to Franklin),predicted the dire situation now facing theorganization, which is in charge of expanding andmaintaining the network...
Considering the potentially dire consequences -- economic, military and diplomatic -- of a hasty return to doing business with Iraq, the U.S. wants to err on the side of caution. That is also the position of the U.N. inspectors, who bear primary responsibility for making sure that Saddam's infernal death machine does not spring back to life. If the sanctions are lifted and the Iraqis renege on their promises, putting the restrictions back again may prove to be too little, too late...