Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, the De Klerk government has done precious little to pave the way for meaningful discussions to occur concerning the transfer of power. Modern day South Africa represents a dire portrait of a doomed government desperately clinging to the slimmest hope of staying in office...
Gregg Miller, the center's executive director, said the program is in dire need of a permanent location...
...Baltic governments manage to reform their economies without incurring dire levels of poverty and unemployment, the citizenship conflict may wane. Estonia, aided by its close cultural ties to Finland, has moved the most swiftly, issuing its own hard currency, the kroon, backed by gold reserves. That has complicated exchanges with Russia but helped increase foreign investment and trade...
...unprecedented safety net would be a central pool of millions of dollars. Harvard would dole out funds from this pool to areas of dire need throughout the University, Rudenstine said...
...former first-year dean, however, saysHarvard's advising system is not in dire need ofreform...