Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Motors, just as they had been earlier at Ford. Meanwhile, the Big Three carmakers watched as new car sales continued to lose a battle against recession, high prices, prohibitive interest rates and an invasion of imports. Automobile sales figures for the second ten-day selling period in March were grim: off 43.5% from the year-earlier pace...
...finally .. . but it would not be proper to reveal Pryor's punch line to the grim joke life played on him; and there are words best left to R-rated movies. Pryor uses them all, relentlessly and with relish. For him-as for Lenny Bruce, the pioneer of Savonarola satire, and Pryor's only true antecedent-profanity serves to give both a salty rhythm to his sentences and a Joy Buzzer shock to his more refeened listeners. It remains for his fearless comic acuity to tell him precisely how much gutter imagery his audience can take...
...listened to CIA Director William Casey narrate how the Soviet Union has exploited food, technology and credits from the free world; both men were astonished at how important these were to Soviet society. Lips pursed, head shaking in grim amazement, Reagan watched the agency's "horror show" of satellite pictures of Soviet ships and submarines coming down the ways, bow to stern, like compacts rolling off a Detroit production line...
Furthermore, the prospect for the student input if the constitution fails to get the necessary two-thirds approval and 50 percent voter turnout are grim. The failure of the referendum would kill the prospects for an assertive, recognized student voice for years to come. Students and Faculty who have shaped this plan for more that two years agree that it would be a long time before students had the energy and desire to start searching for a student government again...
...second half, long-term rates will once again threaten their peaks of 1981." Worse, there are widespread fears that the actual deficit will soar beyond Reagan's projections of $98.6 billion this fiscal year and $91.5 billion in fiscal 1983. Alice Rivlin, Congressional Budget Office director, last week revealed grim...