Word: direness
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...tolerate ambiguity well because our culture socializes us to solve problems and get closure. I tell family members that it's O.K. to have different convictions about whether that person will return as they were. I urge them to be patient with each other and, even in dire circumstances, not to judge the hopeful person as weak or deluded. It's human to nurture hope in the face of uncertainty...
...Health officials expressed satisfaction at the fact that governments appear to have heeded dire warnings of the consequences of failing to prepare: Over the past month alone, the number of governments that have put in place pandemic response plans has risen from 20 percent to 60 percent. "We've reached a greater consensus and clarity on what has to be done to control the spread of the H5N1 virus," Dr. David Nabarro, United Nations Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza told TIME. "If we continue to make inroads, we'll end up with a smaller and less virulent pandemic that...
...might have trouble finding a song you want to download, however. At the moment, Sprint says it has 250,000 songs for sale. I did some random searching, and had a hard time pinpointing what, exactly, this 250,000 consisted of. Searches for Dire Straits, Jamiroquai or the Decemberists turned up nothing; searches for Rolling Stones and Spoon gave me one song each (actually, a Dr. Dre remix of a Stones song and a Spoon track from a TV show compilation). I did find more songs when I typed in 10,000 Maniacs, Steely Dan, Eminem and Wilco...
...dead before it even took shape. Yale, in fact—yes the same Yale that this writer picked to finish dead last in the league—had a better Ivy record than Harvard and a more realistic shot at contending for a league crown. And this dire situation wasn’t just media chatter and fan disappointment either. Crimson coach Tim Murphy talked last week about readjusting goals and being realistic. After all, the last two-loss Ivy champ was back in 1982. No active player on the Harvard football team was even alive...
...city in tutti-frutti colors, but the owners and residents were not even consulted and could not oppose the mayor's ukase. Is that your model of a political hero in a democratic society? While pursuing that caprice, he left the water, sewer and electricity networks in dire condition. You're right that he has leveled hundreds of illegal buildings, particularly in the city center, but these were mostly houses of poor and powerless people, who needless to say were not offered any alternative places to live. Illegal building by the rich and powerful is flourishing - even skyscrapers! A similar...