Word: grim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sight and in fragile health, she never got the credit she deserved for her White House years. She took on Mrs. Kennedy's idea and enriched the public rooms more than any other First Lady. Her achievements were lost in the black hole of Watergate. Even in that grim episode, there was something admirable about her. She kept the dignity of her office, neither condoning the events nor deserting her husband...
...necessarily for the better. Since it is hard to imagine a leakproof nuclear umbrella, each side would still be vulnerable to a first strike. Moreover, each would have to worry about the other's achieving a decisive advantage in defensive weapons. The attraction of MAD, by contrast, is its grim certainty...
Before U.S. jurors and judges see such grim testaments of the tragedy, however, the question of jurisdiction must be resolved. The American lawyers representing Bhopal clients argue that suits can be brought in the U.S. because Union Carbide India is 51% owned by the Union Carbide Corp. of the U.S. and is thus an agent of the parent firm. The U.S. corporation, they further contend, is responsible for the Indian plant's design and safety program. Cautioned Hoyt, who has represented Union Carbide in other matters: "Just because you have equity in a company doesn't mean that...
...major study supports the grim prediction of nuclear winter...
...This grim scene is a possible approximation of the aftermath of nuclear war, according to a study released in Washington last week by the National Research Council, the principal operating agency of the nation's most august scientific body, the National Academy of Sciences. Three years ago, Paul Crutzen, a Dutch meteorologist who is now director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, West Germany, suggested that a cataclysmic nuclear war could be followed by a period of icy gloom. Later, Atmospheric Scientist Richard Turco of R&D Associates in Marina del Rey, Calif., Astronomer Carl Sagan...