Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest referendum enacted last November, the city must cut its property taxes by 15% a year until the rate is a small fraction of its present total. That means laying off 2,000 city employees by next month, 4,000 the following fiscal year. White knows the situation is grim enough to endanger him in politics. Says the former dark-horse presidential possibility, now a would-be survivor...
There were also grim reminders of the heightened security measures that have been taken since the President was shot on March 30. Sharpshooters were positioned on the top steps of the bleachers in Michie Stadium, constantly scanning the crowd. Cadets with seats near the podium were required to walk through metal detectors before entering the stadium. The President was whisked by helicopter between the academy and Stewart Airport in Newburgh, N.Y., where Air Force One had landed; he did not stop to answer reporters' questions, as he normally did before the assassination attempt...
...death and destruction were grim enough, but could have been much worse. A battery of Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles might have been set off, or the crashed plane could have been an A-6 Intruder loaded with heavy ordnance. The ship's enormous elevator portal could have been open, making the ship's lower levels and hundreds more men vulnerable to the fireballs from above. As it turned out, the Nimitz, which cost $2 billion to buiid, sustained only superficial damage. The nuclear reactor -housed several steel-reinforced levels below-was never at risk...
Despite the internal self-assurance, Schatz and students like him who were "coming out," still felt the need to band together. Schatz moved to Adams House ("None of my straight classmates wanted to go there that year, because of its gay reputation," he remembers with a grim smile.) That year, Schatz says, the first "gay clique" formed in Adams House. When he first moved in, the students who were a year older--the first group of open gays at Harvard--kept up their spirits and challenged the prejudices of fellow students by "being outrageous," Schatz remembers. "It was an attack...
...space available was in a state institution, and at 3 a.m. I agreed. The next morning, my mother flew up. During the night my sister had been taken to Westboro State Hospital, and after a meeting with people at UHS, we went out to see her. The conditions were grim. She was the only young woman on a corridor with locked doors and dirty rooms. When she asked to like down, the attendant told her she had to wait because all patients went to bed at the same time...