Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...litany of losses continues, the outlook is becoming increasingly grim. The big carriers this year are likely to have losses of $500 million or more, vs. a $1.2 billion profit just two years ago. This would be only the second time since 1938 that the industry has lost money...
...former Health Minister, Anoushiravan Pouyan. The closed-door trial began on Saturday at the Military Revolutionary Tribunal in Tehran. Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, the hard-lining president of the Supreme Court, had previously announced that "the plotters are facing the death penalty." There seemed little doubt that his grim threat would be carried out with the same judicial severity that sent 42 other Iranians to their death last week on charges that ranged from sex offenses to organizing centers for the Bahai faith, a 19th century offshoot of Islam that is anathema to Iran's Shi'ite majority...
...Sierra Leone under Stevens is like Liberia under Tolbert: a time bomb waiting to explode." That grim forecast comes from a Western diplomat who has had long experience in both countries. Indeed, even a casual visitor is likely to spot similarities between the two West African republics. Both countries became havens for former slaves in the 19th century. In Sierra Leone, the "creole" descendants of these settlers still dominate the country's business and educational elite-as did scions of the freed slaves in Liberia until the recent coup. Sierra Leone gained its independence from Britain in 1961; seven...
...grim executions took place following renewed calls by Khomeini for a strict adherence to Islam and a purge of all forms of corruption. The 80-year-old Ayatullah had launched the campaign two weeks ago with an impassioned speech apologizing for the "incompetence" of his regime, which he said had "done nothing for the people." He particularly criticized certain officials in the government of President Abolhassan Banisadr. At the same time he demanded that "all traces of the former regime be obliterated...
Until 1979, the Journal did not have a single staff artist. Now it has four and is tinkering, just a tiny bit, with its tombstone-grim appearance. "We want graphics that add information to a story, not just decorate," says Page One Editor Glynn Mapes. "And that pretty much boils down to charts and graphs." The Journal uses line drawings instead of photographs on Page One. Every once in a while the paper may run a photo inside, as it did to illustrate an editorial last fall on Senator Edward Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick. Says Executive Editor Frederick...