Word: direness
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...audition bombs, and Finnegan must go on chasing real-life bad guys, toxic-waste dumpers, into the wilds of Tijuana. A couple of beautiful women detectives assist him in this nonsense, whose seriousness may be judged by Finnegan's dire judgment that "the watershed event that signaled the collapse of American civilization was the colorization of The Maltese Falcon...
...dean denied that Harvard's Business School faces a particularly dire financial future. "We don't face a financial crisis," he said...
...early years of commonwealth, adroit use of Section 936 and other incentives raised Puerto Rico from dire poverty to one of the highest living standards in Latin America. But progress has stalled. Industrial development has failed so far to move the island's per capita income close to mainland levels. Unemployment is now 18%, and half the people get some form of public assistance. This year Congress voted to reduce the 936 tax benefit starting in 1994. Statehood would accelerate 936's demise. "It would be a disaster," says Alex Maldonado, a former newspaper editor who is writing an economic...
People from all sides of the political spectrum agree that our country's civil forfeiture laws are in dire need of reform...
That money will likely prove very valuable to the financially stricken paper, which remains in dire need of newsprint and computer equipment...