Word: direness
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...Hotel California - Eagles 2. A Day in the Life - Beatles 3. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits 4. Time - Pink Floyd 5. Message in a Bottle - The Police 6. The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel 7. Highway Star - Deep Purple 8. Jealous Guy - John Lennon 9. The River - Bruce Springsteen 10. Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been traveling around Europe lobbying hard to undermine support for the U.S. antimissile shield--and making dire predictions of a "new arms race." America's European allies are concerned too. Senior European diplomats argue that if the U.S. creates a national missile defense, European reaction will be, "What are we going to do? How are we going to defend ourselves?" It will be badly received in Europe. And though China has only around 20 ICBMs, Beijing has threatened to build more if the U.S. goes ahead with NMD. Last week 45 U.S. experts on China...
When Joseph Smith first arrived in Illinois in 1839, his people were in dire straits. Smith, who claimed to have received the Book of Mormon from the angel Moroni 12 years earlier, had attracted thousands of adherents, but they had been pushed out of one frontier town after another and ejected from Missouri under threat of death. Yet within three years the new town of Nauvoo boasted 1,500 log homes and shops and 350 brick buildings. Its militia counted 4,000 men, roughly half the size of the U.S. Army at the time. Its visual and spiritual centerpiece...
...Everybody should just stay calm," says John Dilulio Jr., a University of Pennsylvania political-science professor and co-author of the book Body Count. Dilulio is known for his dire predictions of a new wave of juvenile violent crime, but even he is not moved by the recent glitches in some cities' murder rates. Give it 18 more months, he says, then we'll talk...
...sounded almost like the good old days on Al Gore's presidential campaign, with lots of dire talk about his opponent's risky schemes and secret plans, arrogant approaches and smug assumptions. Last week Gore managed to parlay what was to have been a simple health-care speech to medical reporters in Chicago into a dissertation on George W. Bush's coziness with the National Rifle Association. (A top N.R.A. official had been videotaped saying of Bush, "We'll have a President...where we work out of their office.") Gore also savaged the Texas Governor's Social Security plan with...