Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American appetite for such missions, even in cases of dire human need, has been dulled by experiences like Somalia. "Lesson No. 1," President Clinton said last week, "is, Don't go into one of these things and say, maybe we'll be done in a month because it's a humanitarian crisis." His reluctance mirrors the public's: a TIME/CNN poll last week showed that only 34% of respondents favored doing something to quell the violence, while 51% opposed any action. Clinton confirmed that judgment with a new presidential directive on U.S. participation in peacekeeping abroad: those operations, it says...
...Clinton administration, which has made health-care reform one of its highest priorities, believes that the U.S. is facing a crisis in primary care. The government says that the country is in dire need of primary care doctors, citing other countries which have a 50-50 ratio between generalists and specialists...
...angry nihilism of punk and heavy metal with the synthetic sheen of techno, The Downward Spiral is a 14-song, 65-minute howl of somebody falling into the void. What keeps it from being just another nauseating exercise in shock rock is the intelligence and creative force behind its dire sound. On March of the Pigs, for example, layers of shifting static are suddenly broken by a lyrical piano riff that blooms like a flower through cracked pavement before the wall of noise crushes it again...
...income tax code, thousands of pages long, is in dire need of simplification. We could dramatically improve our tax system by implementing a value added tax (VAT) to replace the personal income, corporate income, and payroll taxes...
...Goldman's staff of 8,000 received a year-end bonus equal to 30% of salary, plus a piece of the firm's $17 million contribution to the employee profit-sharing plan. Moreover, the firm rules say that most of the profits must be reinvested and except in certain dire emergencies cannot be withdrawn until a partner leaves. Even senior partners who make upwards of $20 million draw salaries of well under $300,000. No need to feel too sorry for them though; they can also draw down the interest they earn on reinvested capital, which for a veteran banker...