Word: direness
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...proponents maintain that those in seriously dire straits will still be able to get the relief they need, and as for folks with merely uncomfortable balances, Bush has a tax cut he'd like to sell you. Other than that, well, you borrowed it - you pay it back...
...which was first used experimentally in 1926. The board desperately wanted the University of California, then the biggest university in the nation, to fully adopt the test. In 1962, as Nicholas Lemann says in his brilliant history, The Big Test, an SAT honcho wrote to his colleagues of the dire consequences if U.C. decided to end its then limited use of the test: "If they drop the SAT, we will lose a great deal more than the revenue; we will suffer a damaging blow to our prestige...
...everyone is convinced that the situation is so dire. "We're not sure if it's a crisis," says Fran Visco, head of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, "or if it's something generated by the radiologists' trade association." Indeed, Visco believes the reimbursement issue has shifted focus away from other, more important issues in breast cancer, such as expanded funding for research and providing better protection against genetic discrimination...
...over ourselves. Should we really be worried about the overwhelmingly white and Asian upper-middle-class kids (we used to call them rich) who have to pay full tuition? Even at the low end, these families aren't hurting, certainly not relative to those in dire need around the world. I'll save my tears for others...
Harvard was in dire straits on Saturday against the Warriors (6-6, 4-5), trailing 2-0 and facing match point in the third game. A loss would have meant a four game deficit to the leaders with only six conference games...