Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diaspora can survive. But the diaspora is no longer. Israel exists and fights, not relying on the mercy of its neighbors for its life. And the neoconservatives represent men of wealth and power in this country who likewise seem to have lost any need for mercy. It is a grim view, but Shorris doubts the Jews' ability to retain sensitivity to moral considerations after achieving a degree of material and political success...
...nightmare is both grim and grimly plausible. A ruinous new energy crisis once again doubles or triples oil prices. Economies are battered, and governments around the world topple. In the U.S., business goes into a slump that can be compared only with the Great Depression...
...news was grim but not surprising. According to Argentina's newly appointed Economics Minister José Maria Dagnino Pastore, his country's economy was in a "state of collapse without precedent." Radical therapy was needed. In a televised 18-min. speech, Dagnino Pastore announced last week what amounted to a 180° turnaround in economic policies. Argentina will move away from the liberal, free-market approach that has been an aim of the country's military government since it took power in 1976 and back toward the kind of protectionism that has been characteristic since World...
...this grim atmosphere, the struggle for peace was essentially a race against time. For the U.S., the challenge was the one that President Reagan alluded to in his Wednesday evening press conference: how to "walk the very narrow line" between keeping the pressure on the P.L.O. to negotiate a withdrawal, and on Israel to refrain from making a devastating attack on West Beirut. To neglect the former would be to give the P.L.O. the mistaken notion that world opinion might yet save it. To neglect the latter would be to invite an Israeli bloodbath in the capital...
...nation nursing the wounds of war, the inauguration of a new President offered no cause for revelry. The brief, dour ceremony only provided a grim reminder of the instability that has long plagued Argentina: in the presidential palace, Casa Rosada, retired Major General Reynaldo Bignone, 54, was sworn in as the seventh President of the military regime that seized power six years...