Word: direness
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...Courtney?s actions, Dr. Bull adds, could easily have thrown off the intricate timing of cancer treatment. "This is a fairly dire scenario in that chemotherapy drugs are most effective against tumors at the highest dose you can get in without toxicity, and the patients who received dosage from this pharmacist obviously weren?t getting that potency...
...very Arab allies with whom he?d vowed to repair relations after years of neglect by Clinton. The administration had been insisting that there are strict limits on what it can do as long as the parties themselves fail to bring about a cease-fire, but it received a dire warning last week from Osama El Baz, national security adviser to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. El Baz, on a visit to Washington, warned that Israelis and Palestinians "have proved themselves incapable of moving by themselves towards peace," and that their continued conflict threatened to unleash extremist forces that posed...
...total lack of cooperation. Despite its squeaky clean reputation, they say, Singapore's patrols never follow up on their alerts when a pirate they are pursuing slips into Singaporean waters. They add that the city-state is a hub for smuggling - oil, wood, rattan. But all agree that the dire state of the Indonesian economy - and the accompanying erosion of law and order - has pushed piracy to such unprecedented levels. "The salaries for sailors have gotten lower and lower," says the captain. "And it's getting more and more difficult to get legal work. It's very hard to refuse...
...Perhaps US Airways? prospects wouldn?t look quite so dire if the ailing airline hadn?t tried this before. In fact, part of the new Plan B is cutting back on operations by Metrojet - the mini-airline it started a few years back as a copycat to Southwest. To save money, Metrojet flies only Boeing 737 planes just like Southwest, and often flies to secondary airports, just like Southwest. US Airways even made a smart leadership move - in a surprising break with tradition - and negotiated special arrangements with the unions in order to lower costs at Metrojet, so it could...
...easy making peace when the economy is in such a dire state, and there are so many men of fighting age in both communities without much by way of job prospects...