Word: direness
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China’s current urban-rural situation is indeed in dire straits. Official data show that the average rural resident makes only 32 percent of the income of his urban counterparts—a statistic that is at its worst level since data first became available in 1952. And it may even underestimate the problem. According to a 2004 report to the United Nations Poverty Reduction Taskforce, if non-monetary benefits are considered, the real difference between a Chinese city-dweller and his fellow countryman may not be merely three times, but six, the biggest such disparity...
...failed to sign Dire Straits. And I say yes to more things than I perhaps should. To some people, that's a mistake. At head office, my nickname...
Here the book more or less abandons its plot—and Eco sends Yambo off to delve into the hoards of books, magazines, and other artifacts that, aided and abetted by the Italian cuisine that rockets his blood pressure to dire levels, are supposedly to help him re-find himself...
...line of the river. Behind them the light grew in the East. As they walked they compared notes, talking lightly in hobbit-fashion of the things that had happened since their capture. No listener would have guessed from their words that they had suffered cruelly, and been in dire peril...
...manager, co-owner, and president of The Garment District, Inc., Christopher Cassell admits that the building, parts of which date back to 1891, is in dire need of rehabilitation...