Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iraqis shelled other major towns in oil-rich Khuzistan province, Iran struck back at enemy positions with Phantom jet and helicopter attacks. Tehran radio broadcasts claimed that Iranian ground troops had pushed the Iraqis back on the northern fringes of the 500-mile invasion front. The week's grim work left hundreds dead on both sides. Houses, schools and mosques lay in ruins. Vital oil pipelines were shattered and gnarled, while plumes of thick black smoke rose over burning refineries...
...Kennedy School, a small pro-Carter crowd of about 50 gathered to watch the Forum's wide television screen in grim disbelief as one state after another fell to Republican challenger Ronald Reagan...
...have reservations about the abilities of their candidate. And the level of deeply committed support is extremely low; few cowbells are being rung at rallies throughout the land this fall. Sixty-one percent of the voters admit being unmoved by anyone in the race. Although this remains a somewhat grim and unhappy election, the fact that the decision will at long last be reached next week has heightened national attention and made even more important the presidential debate this week. Slowly, quietly, the patterns are changing. The poll indicates that President Carter is reclaiming traditional Democratic support...
Britain's economic statistics are grim. Unemployment is above 2 million, roughly 8.4% of the work force, and rising sharply. More than 7,000 firms are expected to go under this year. Inflation, while slowing down from a 1980 high of 21% in July, stands at 16.3%. Manufacturing output is down, interest rates are at 16%, and the money supply, crucial to the monetarist creed, has exceeded targeted limits by more than a third. "The government's entire economic strategy faces a crisis of credibility," charged the London Times. "The private sector, which she pledged to revitalize...
...second one-acter, Pasatieri's before Breakfast, is considerably more successful. Adapted by Director Frank Corsaro from a play by Eugene O'Neill , it is a melodrama similar in style, if not in score, to Poulenc's La Voix Humaine. The setting is a grim Depression flat. Soprano Marilyn Zschau is preparing breakfast for her husband before leaving for her own job as a waitress. While she flops around the room in her slip, she carries on a one-way conversation with the silent and unseen spouse as he gets up and goes into the bathroom...