Word: direness
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...significant. One could certainly argue that students should simply carry less stuff around with them each day. However, in the jam-packed schedules of most Harvard students, this is often not an option, and to their credit, most students aren’t complaining. But the situation, though not dire, could still be improved. An appropriate analogy is with the fly-by lunch service, which allows students to grab food in the yard without having to return to their Houses. Its absence did not cause a visible inconvenience, but its presence proves a great help...
...rights to raise a few eyebrows or even hackles in this, the land of the free. Instead, the dissolution of foundational legal principles, which predate this nation, seems to trouble very few in the nation’s mass media. On blogs, on the Internet, on Amnesty International, this dire situation received its due attention. But for some truly inexplicable reason, only a smattering of articles in the major news and a few television commentators denounced the president’s actions. Like the dog that didn’t bark in the night, the nation’s media...
...Given the growth prospects, these new trends in food and agriculture promise an array of enticing investment opportunities. But there are plenty of risks when it comes to agriculture. The threats of droughts, floods, pests and overproduction go with the territory?and their effects are often particularly dire in emerging nations. In addition, the weather in such countries tends to be more extreme because many of them are in tropical or near-tropical locations. But the long-term trend is clear: as the middle class in emerging markets grows and prospers, nutritional habits will continue to change?and that should...
...William B. Caldwell IV issued the starkest assessment of the carnage to date: that our Operation Together Forward-the half-baked attempt by Iraqi and U.S. forces to secure Baghdad-had failed. Privately, high-ranking military officials were saying that the situation on the ground in Iraq was now dire. Indeed, Bush's Iraq project and his Republican Party seemed to be spinning out of control simultaneously, with Shi'ites fighting Sunnis in the north (and rival Shi'ite militias fighting one another in the south) while, back home, neoconservatives fought supply-siders who, in turn, fought religious conservatives...
...dire advice? Because, say the authors, sugar is the fast track to obesity and related ailments such as diabetes, coronary-artery disease, hypertension, high-blood cholesterol and certain kinds of cancer. Besides, as your dentist will happily tell you, you'll be in the dentist's chair more often because sugar (as your mother said) rots your teeth. And if that weren't bad enough, the authors warn of sugar-induced psychological problems like depression and listlessness...