Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Across the Borderline is, indeed, like a more contemporary and personalized version of Nelson's smash album of pop standards, Stardust -- a songbook that Nelson transforms into something as intimate as a diary. Stardust pointed the way to some dire aesthetic directions: if only its duet with Julio Iglesias could be expunged from the collective pop consciousness without doing damage to Nelson's beleaguered bank account. But with a little luck, Across the Borderline will fix him for good right where he belongs, among the best of American music. If still really is still moving to him, then...
...plan, it would strengthen Arab opposition to the peace talks and derail negotiations. Late Wednesday night Osama El-Baz, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's troubleshooter and confidant, arrived in Israel with a warning to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that the consequences of such an attack would be dire. By the end of the week, the threat seemed to have been headed...
Finally, a visit by the band and its followers would do immeasurable good for Harvard's atmosphere. Judging from the results of the Luntz poll, this campus is in dire need of a night of collective wild abandon--chemically, psychologically and socially. And what better catalyst than a visit by the Grateful Dead and their thousand-footed, brilliantly colored entourage...
These are just a few of the often controversial risk studies produced over the past few years by epidemiologists, or doctors who study statistical relationships. But should anyone listen to the constant barrage, each study with more dire consequences than the last...
...dire warnings about the potential death of this market are not exactly bolstered by the restaurant association's own studies. In 1986 it released a report claiming that the 20% decline in deductibility would prompt a 6% drop in annual sales and job losses of more than 400,000 per year. As a result, the argument went, any gains to the Treasury would be more than offset by lost revenue from income and sales taxes...