Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many reservations. "Indians are the most regulated people in the world," says Dale Riesling, chairman of the 2,000-member Hoopa Valley tribe in Northern California. "Self- determination means that we are completely free to set our own direction and goals, basically our own destiny." That destiny is in dire need of reshaping: life expectancy in some tribes is 45 years, the leading cause of death is alcoholism, and Indians have the lowest per capita income of any ethnic group in the U.S. A weak school system has made it nearly impossible for Native Americans to succeed in competitive jobs...
After speaking to medical sources and learning about the dire effects of missing sleep, correspondent James Willwerth began going to bed an hour earlier. "Now," he reports, "I'm happy to greet the day for the first time in my life." His campaign to prevent midday yawns is less successful. He tried stretching out in his office at TIME's Los Angeles bureau one afternoon. Colleagues kept bursting in the door, he grumbles, "unaware that a scientific experiment was in progress...
...beneficiaries, the arrival of Christmas in April was a gift beyond measure. Janie and Lyde Hawkins have been married since 1925; theirs was a dismal home, in dire need of a new roof, porch and windows. "We ain't got to pay for it?" Janie asked coordinator Trish Lunn every time she came...
...unemployment climbs, inflation rises and the economy lurches toward an expected slump, economists issue dire warnings about "recessionary psychology" -- a pattern of cuts in consumer spending and investment that tends to feed the downward spiral and make any economic falloff even deeper. But there is another, more profound kind of recessionary psychology. It is measured by psychic indicators rather than economic ones. As people change their behavior in the face of layoffs, cutbacks or a sudden drop in net worth, more and more Americans find themselves clinically depressed...
...moot simply because such a parade of horribles cannot be implemented by any governor. Rather than slavishly follow the media's largely irresponsible soundbite fixations, the citizens of the Commonwealth should see in Silber the administrative ability, intelligence, courage and leadership of which Massachusetts is in such dire need...