Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feeling is that the situation is a serious one, but not dire," she says. "The perception seems to be that with...wise judgements we can overcome our budget problems...
Jeffrey D. Sachs '76, Stone professor of international trade, in the same issue of The Economist, offers advice on how the International Monetary Fund can help rescue the new Russian Republic. Here's part of the Sachs Solution (dire warning: Ec 10 may not be enough to understand what follows...
Conscription has broken down in some areas, and the desertion rate is rising. Pay is so meager that soldiers have resorted to selling military equipment on the black market. Fuel shortages are so dire that many ships and submarines have been forced to return to their home ports. Planes, ships and tanks are being cannibalized for spare parts. Thousands of demobilized troops from Eastern Europe are stranded without adequate housing and benefits in shabby tent cities. Morale is at a nadir. "The military is absolutely shellshocked," says Dale Herspring of the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson Center. "Cohesion...
...latest revelations revived speculation linking Maxwell's death to the dire financial condition of his media empire. Although the preliminary autopsy report claimed the 300-lb. 68-year-old died of "natural causes," the exact circumstances of his death are still unknown. Even Maxwell's Mirror reported in its Thursday edition that at the time of his death the magnate was under increasing pressure to meet debt obligations. But while the events leading up to his demise remain obscure, one point is now very clear: Maxwell's wealth was more financial illusion than reality...
...hence to have a chance of qualifying for welfare benefits. If we look at the kind of persons most likely to be eligible -- single mothers living in poverty with children under 18 to support -- we find little difference in welfare participation by race: 74.6% of African Americans in such dire straits are on welfare, compared with 64.5% of the poor white single moms...