Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because of Radcliffe's dire financial situation, Wilson can't have it both ways. If she wants to build Radcliffe into the foremost women's research center in the country, she should not be bogged down with paying for the concerns of 3000 Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates. Instead, she should demand that Harvard accept full financial responsibility for issues such as campus security, meeting space for women's groups and funding for undergraduate public service...
...friend drove to New York to visit him. Over a nurse's protest, Healy asked to see them briefly. He was in a welter of tubes and looked ashen. "I felt that even then he was teaching us," says Porterfield, "trying to show us how to cope in dire circumstances, maybe...
Taylor urges an all-out war on the poverty, poor schooling, broken family structures and dire job prospects that make the urban underclass a seedbed for crime. Unfortunately, such prescriptions are not only familiar but also too expensive and time consuming to attract much political support. Detroit is already a case study of what happens when the conditions that produce gangs are allowed to fester. Warns Taylor: "We need to face up to the fact that there is a major crisis in this city...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts is in extremely dire straits economically. We need a leader who can manage this state effectively, not one whose only qualification is a stamp of approval from a single-issue lobby...
...NOTTING HILLBILLIES: MISSING . . . PRESUMED HAVING A GOOD TIME (Warner Bros.). Mark Knopfler, of Dire Straits, and three mates of similar musical inclination cook up a relaxed set of old-time guitar music and dusty folk. A sort of after-hours version of the Traveling Wilburys, with a solid Knopfler original (Your Own Sweet Way) nestled among the well-roasted chestnuts...