Word: direness
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...They slam Green Mountain for relying overwhelmingly on natural gas for its energy basket, and for supplementing that with hydroelectric power - which has its own dire forms of ecological impact - and landfill...
...stands right now, we appear to be past the bust in the stock market - both the Dow and the NASDAQ are comfortably off their mid-March lows, and barring a new round of dire economic news, few market-watchers expect another big dip anytime soon. If that's the case, it's because companies have been furiously cutting costs and lowering production since winter in a struggle to return to some semblance of profitability, and investors, while not exactly rushing in - they've learned some lessons from the past year - have handed out some points for effort...
...effort proved there was life after missing the playoffs. But Harvard may soon have to adjust to an even more dire prospect—life after Crockett...
Finally, when it comes to making predictions of an impending recession, private economists either have no such skills or they just lack the nerve to issue dire warnings. Being the bearer of bad news can be professionally risky, since optimism sells better than pessimism. Government forecasters are also shy about raising red flags on the economy because of the political ramifications. Politicians generally dismiss talk of an economic downturn, preferring instead to highlight prosperity--at least if they want to get re-elected. Asks economist Prakash Loungani at the International Monetary Fund: "How good are these forecasters at predicting...
...felt the need to exact her vengeance upon Falstaff, grumbling her woes to her companions in a valiant attempt to drown out his catechism. Leaving the event, I was sufficiently embarrassed of my natal affiliation to go so far as to pose as being, of all things, French. Clearly dire straits. Upon my return to the land of the free and the home of the brazen, my indignant rage at our collective theatrical impropriety softened somewhat in the absence of a ready comparison...