Word: direness
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...astronauts prespare to return to Earth. It's a vintage NASA scene--the astronaut and engineer, locked together in a room, not leaving until the problem is solved. All the while, they maintain the steely resolve of the fighter jocks and engineers that characterize NASA, despite the dire circumstances...
...apprehension is justified. County-USC, one of the busiest hospitals in the U.S., may fall victim to emergency budget cutting that has its root causes in California in the 1970s but foreshadows grim national choices in the '90s. The dire prognosis for County-USC was delivered on Monday by L.A. County chief administrative officer Sally Reed. Saying that she wanted to "put reality on table," Reed announced that the county risked insolvency unless it could make up a $1.2 billion budget shortfall within a year. She suggested a raft of drastic measures: a 20% cut in services, the elimination...
...only can the Bosnian government not lift the siege, but the situation of Sarajevo today is even more dire than before. Last week the United Nations abandoned altogether its 16-month effort to shield the city from Serbian bombardment. By Monday U.N. forces had withdrawn from the 10 depots originally established to collect and control the Serbian cannons, howitzers, tanks and artillery pieces that were used to bombard the city. Moreover, it now appears that despite protestations it would never do so, the U.N. had in fact made a deal in which it agreed, among other things, not to conduct...
...have no doubt good taste and responsibility will not limit the entertainment industry's ability to provide mature work that attacks our corruption, challenges our paranoia and pulls the covers off the shortcomings that Balkanize us. What we need is simply the same sense of responsibility and dire consequences that we bring to the issue of anti-Semitism...
...situation is not as dire today as it was a few months ago. Since his return to office in February from a three-month medical leave, Rudenstine has done significant lobbying in person and by telephone with members of Congress. Deferred interest for undergraduate loans now appears safe, he says, although cuts still loom for graduate students...