Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...governor's office, the capacity to change the status quo should be foremost in everyone's minds. Quite simply, drastic times require drastic measures; and if Data Resources Inc./McGraw Hill (DRI), the nation's most respected economic forecasters, are to be believed, these are indeed the most dire of times...
...Dienstbier did not tell us that "his country was in dire need of economic help from the West," nor would he do so. To suggest otherwise is the product of an overactive journalistic imagination. Allon Percus...
...deficit estimate to $159 billion, up from $138 billion just a month before. Unless a plan for cutting almost $100 billion could be produced by Oct. 1, spending cuts required by Gramm-Rudman would force the layoff of thousands of government workers. Within days, Administration officials began to utter dire predictions. It was the perfect opportunity for a sudden conversion, and Bush took...
...Canadian journalist. The Canadian-born Ostrovsky, who grew up in Israel and now works in Ottawa as an artist, sold the manuscript to Toronto's Stoddart Publishing, which planned to release the book Oct. 4. But two weeks ago, claiming the book contained information that "could have dire consequences for many people," Israeli officials won a temporary injunction in Canada against release of the book's contents. Ostrovsky temporarily went into hiding following what he claimed was a menacing visit to his home by two of his former Mossad bosses...
That is a prospect so dire that neither side will allow it to occur. For the first time since the talks began four months ago, Democrats and Republicans both seemed more interested in working out a deal than in political posturing. Bush believes the crisis atmosphere arising from the showdown with Saddam Hussein may be the best, and last, chance to stampede the Congress toward a budget agreement...