Word: direness
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...late 1990s. The other big difference is that many of the venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are still smarting from the last round of layoffs and drop-offs in tech stock prices. Sure, hope springs eternal, but that might only stretch so far given that they've seen the dire effects of old investing habits...
...Harvard crowd, failure is the ultimate taboo. And in this case, this is not the same kind of failure as getting a “B” on paper that you worked on for days. This—more serious—academic setback can have dire consequences...
...voters of the contrary last week. He portrayed the constitution as a basically benign tidying-up exercise that would streamline E.U. procedures to avoid gridlock as it expands to 25 members, without sapping core national prerogatives to set tax rates and foreign and defense policy. But he also forecast dire results if Britain balked, leaving it isolated on Europe's margins, even tempting the rest of the E.U. countries to wash their hands of pesky Albion and go off on their own. He claimed this was exactly what the Tories wanted: to use the vote as a way of forcing...
...increased cost to the federal government means that the program is better serving students—not that there is cause for alarm. A study from the conservative American Enterprise Institute offered dire predictions of even higher costs if interest rates continue to rise; Republicans—and some Democrats—have since latched onto the issue. Proponents of the bill would offer students variable rates, forcing them to pay the going rate on loans—a move which could make going to college prohibitively expensive for many young people...
...calling for direct intervention ... However troubled they might be by the scale and ferocity of the slaughter, Western nations have offered little more than emotional expressions of sympathy for the victims. The American appetite for such missions, even in cases of dire human need, has been dulled by experiences like Somalia. "Lesson No. 1," President Clinton said last week, "is, Don't go into one of these things and say, maybe we'll be done in a month because it's a humanitarian crisis." His reluctance mirrors the public's: a TIME/CNN poll last week showed that only...