Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other Eastern European countries fled to West Germany, while many West Germans took advantage of their opportunity to travel in East Germany again. Fritz writers that "Everywhere, everyone caught a scent of something--prosperity, pop culture, maybe--and went a little loony," Romanian Gypsies came to Berlin mostly in dire straits but left their theft and abuse of humanitarian aid alienated many from assisting their migration. Romanians continuously begged for clothing and go sell it on the street, stole whatever they could from the common supply rooms so that humanitarian relief workers had to keep supplies locked up and were...
...last week a NATO bomb fell short of its target, destroying two residential areas. Though NATO officials have labeled it an "accident of war," the fact remains that at least seven people were reported killed and nearly 50 wounded. Despite our idealism, the reality is that this war's dire consequences have affected the innocent, both Serbian and Albanian...
Jack Kevorkian had been warned that acting as his own attorney might have dire consequences. "You realize that being convicted of first-degree, premeditated murder means you could spend the rest of your life in prison?" Judge Jessica Cooper asked sternly at the beginning of his trial in Pontiac, Mich...
Though others had been warning of pesticide dangers, it was Carson who struck upon the metaphor that would draw all these dire warnings to a point. "There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings...Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change...There was a strange stillness...The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird...
...There is a growing digital divide," says Philip Burgess, president of the Center for the New West, an advocacy group whose board includes Solomon Trujillo, ceo of regional phone giant US West, and Utah Governor Michael Leavitt. The gulf, Burgess warns, could have "dire implications" for the social and economic fabric of many communities, particularly those in sparsely populated Western states...