Word: direness
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...think it's going to get a lot worse for us out there." Some plaintiffs say they have been chastised by workers who feel the lawsuit will "rock the boat" for other African Americans and anger the executives who run one of the state's most powerful companies, with dire consequences for Aiken...
Really? No, not really. Well, not likely anyway. But that hasn't slowed the mounting angst over the Year 2000 glitch, particularly on the Internet, where the mix of technical savvy and suspicion is proving to be the perfect outlet for dire predictions. "I've never seen such hysterical projections, and I lived through the paranoia of the 1960s," says Nicholas Zvegintzov, president of Software Management Network, a Los Altos, Calif., company specializing in software maintenance...
Officials will commit to few other details about next fall's changes. The worry remains that, without a dire drop in admissions yield, the University might only be as generous as it needs...
...most unsettling element to the loss, however, was the lack of inspired play, which became an even more dire concern as the season progressed...
...while many participated in the emerging student activities on campus, others looked outward. One group started the Harvard Relief Fund to raise money for students overseas who were in dire straits after the destruction of the past six years...