Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Bill Cavellini, who has been cabbying here for 15 years, the dire financial straits drivers have found themselves in lately made a fare increase a necessity...
...RISING TIDE of insomnia must be checked. I hereby call for the immediate formation of Students for Improving and Extending Sleep Today and Always (SIESTA). Given the dire circumstances in which we begin our struggle, SIESTA will take drastic actions to raise unconsciousness. We'll begin with a pajama-clad "sleep-in." At 10:00 tonight, let all those who would make things right assemble in front of University Hall. Bring pillows...
Should foreign airlines be allowed to hold major stakes in U.S. carriers? The old answer, motivated by national pride and security concerns, was no. The new answer, influenced by the dire financial condition of many U.S. airlines, is yes -- within limits. Last week Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner increased the allowable size of a foreign carrier's stake in a U.S. airline to 49% of equity, up from...
...nobody has seemed to notice. The blaring front-page headlines that announced Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation have disappeared now that the Soviet foreign minister's dire predictions of imminent dictatorship have come true. Just as Kruschev's 1956 invasion of Hungary was overshadowed by the concurrent Suez crisis, the backlash in the Baltics has been buried on page nine, shunted to the background by Bush's moralistic pursuit of his New World Order...
Many tribes are trapped between ancient environmental principles and modern economic pressures. One Alaskan tribe in dire need of funds is reluctantly trying to decide whether to sign away logging rights around Prince William Sound, permit oil drilling in a delicate wildlife area or allow an airfield to be built in the midst of a vast habitat for Kodiak bears. Other tribes have allowed waste-management companies to use reservation land for dumps and disposal sites, then suffered from the contamination of their land and water as a result. Across the vast Arizona tracts of the Navajo Nation, high-voltage...