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...weather experts point out that there are no records of back-to-back nationwide droughts. In Ohio and Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the snowpacks of the Rockies, the grim dryness seems at last to have been broken. But in the Missouri River basin and the Pacific Northwest and along parts of the East Coast, the debilitating moisture deficits remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Real Deficit Is Water | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...shopping period was over, the controversy surrounding Core lotteries had alienated students in practically every year and garnered more headlines in the Crimson than the changes in the freshman housing lottery. Unfortunately, to students hoping to enroll in a number of popular Core courses, this news was just as grim as the housing verdict was to freshmen...

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: Rotten to the Core | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

...Middlesex District Courthouse is tall, grey, grim. Inside, everything looks as if it's covered with a layer of grit...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: The Second Sex at Middlesex Courthouse | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...hundreds of innocents -- out of the sky. When Britain's Department of Transport announced last week that investigators had found "conclusive evidence of a detonating high explosive" that shattered Pan Am Flight 103 at 31,000 ft. above Scotland, killing some 270 people, two questions took on a grim priority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diabolically Well-Planned: Pan Am's Flight 103 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...humanitarian terms, the picture is equally grim. In its annual report, the United Nations Children's Fund blames the debt crisis for lowering the quality of life for almost 900 million people over the past decade. If the current trend continues, UNICEF warns, the debt problem will cause the deaths of 18 million children a year by the end of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America Sounding the Alarm: Debt-Threatened Democracies | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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