Word: grim
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Thousands of Americans are already suffering the grim consequences of excessive exposure to such chemicals as asbestos, vinyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which can-and too often do-cause metabolic disorders, birth defects or even cancer. But now there is hope that many others may be spared such agonies in the future. Calling it "one of the most important pieces of environmental legislation to come out of Congress," President Ford last week signed into law a bill that requires premarket testing of new chemicals...
Ford's week of misadventures and buffeting left his campaign aides confused and rattled; at times late in the week, the President looked particularly grim. Said a campaign official: "We recognize that something has to be done, and fast, but what that something is, nobody seems to know." Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was being primed to lead a counterattack against Carter this week in hopes of putting the Democrat again on the defensive. The G.O.P. plan is for Rocky to hammer away at Carter's finances, raising questions about his campaign contributors and the tax records of his family-held...
Gradually these grim facts have taken their toll on civilian morale. The latest migration figures were particularly discouraging. During the first eight months of 1975, there was a net increase of 1,510 white Rhodesians; this year, during the same period, there was a net loss...
...behind this façade of luxury and speed lurks a grim reality. Like many of the railroads of the world, the Japanese National Railway is on the brink of bankruptcy. Last week the line was barely saved from defaulting on $138 million in debts to 10,000 private companies when it canceled maintenance and construction contracts and received a $138 million stopgap loan from the Finance Ministry. Even so, more huge debts fall due next month, and the government is in no mood for another rescue. The Finance Ministry and private banks, which in the past have generously bailed...
...Christianity, though it certainly caused enough bloodletting, did help tame the human beast, did offer hope in a landscape of despair. "Without these restraints, bereft of these encouragements," he concludes, "how much more horrific the history of these last 2,000 years must have been!" Given Johnson's grim recital of human frailty, that may seem more like faith than history. But, as he disturbingly observes, the first glimpses of a deChristianized secular future are most dismal indeed...