Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the world was keeping a wary eye out for a Libyan attempt on President Reagan or some other U.S official, terror struck from a different, and unexpected, quarter. A few grim facts came in an anonymous telephone call to the ANSA news agency in Milan: "This is the Red Brigades. We have kidnaped Brigadier General James Dozier. A communiqué will follow...
...Christians, in the name of Christ, to ignore or even contradict fundamental principles and values that were preached and acted upon by Jesus of Nazareth." You have your Inquisition and your Crusades and your indulgence-selling and your papal imperialism, and in some ways you have a pretty grim picture. But from that legacy of dogma and rigidity, new ideas are emerging...
...this weekend, and as a result the city's streets were unnecessarily slick and dangerous, and the city's public schools needlessly closed. And it will be worse next time, for the DPW budget is now drained. "It's going to be an enjoyable winter," Fagone said with a grim chuckle. "From now on, we're just going to watch it fall...
Paying for the weekend's plowing will entirely deplete the city's snow removal budget, Fagone said. "It's going to be a very enjoyable winter," he said with a grim chuckle. "If it snows any more, we're not going to do a thing except watch it fall...
That makes the outlook doubly grim for retailers. Third-quarter profits for some of them were way down because of the accelerating economic slide. Los Angeles-based Carter Hawley Hale Stores, for example, showed an earnings slump of 35%, and profits at Allied Stores, which owns Bonwit Teller, declined 36%. These and other retailers look to Christmas for 25% of their annual sales and 35%, even 45%, of their yearly earnings...