Word: direness
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...exasperated man was laying out some dire math last week at a senior center in Rock Hill, S.C., as a morning crowd of silver heads nodded in empathy. The miracle drugs that keep his 94-year-old mother healthy, the man said, can cost $700 a month - far more than she can afford on her $42 pension check and $1,200 from Social Security. Those tiny bottles of glaucoma drops alone cost $95 every two weeks. She couldn't pay for them without the $400 he and his brother chip in every month. "If we were passing Medicare today...
...exasperated man was laying out some dire math last week at a senior center in Rock Hill, S.C., as a morning crowd of silver heads nodded in empathy. The miracle drugs that keep his 94-year-old mother healthy, the man said, can cost $700 a month--far more than she can afford on her $42 pension check and $1,200 from Social Security. Those tiny bottles of glaucoma drops alone cost $95 every two weeks. She couldn't pay for them without the $400 he and his brother chip in every month. "If we were passing Medicare today...
...rock that grants good stuff like immortality. Since immortality would throw all kinds of wrenches into the system of reincarnation, Tibetan monks hid the sharira for thousands of years, but ensured a family of trained acrobats would one day be able to retrieve it if the need were sufficiently dire. Presumably the Chinese invasion of Tibet was not dire enough, because the sharira is still waiting to be discovered when the diabolical Karl (played by Richard Roxburgh) sets his sights on it. (We know Karl is evil from the start because he wears a black silk smoking jacket and uses...
These unsettling developments have forced many of today's retirees to return to work and have confronted the next generation--the baby boomers, turning 50 at the rate of 10,000 a day--with dire financial issues for the first time in their lives. Can they ever retire? If so, when? What kind of lifestyle will they be able to afford? A powerful set of trends will leave many of them unable to call it quits until after they turn 70--possibly long after...
...Harvard decided to break with the status quo, it would have had dire implications for the Early Decision system, which benefits schools who are guaranteed that they were the first choice of a substantial percentage of their applicants and thus have higher yields than they otherwise would...