Word: direness
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...over his mouth, Thomas is using a crowbar to pull nails from the frame of the house he grew up in and now rents out. Unemployed since Katrina flooded the Hyatt and took his job as a banquet captain, he is spending his time renovating. The city is in dire need of rental housing like his, since Katrina destroyed some 43,000 units, including 5,000 public housing apartments. Standing in the doorway, the 62-year-old points to empty lots where houses once stood nearby. He hasn't seen the neighbors at all, but believes his renovation, lonely...
...Orleans to gone elsewhere. The report found that evacuation was an ever-evolving odyssey, as evacuees moved an average of 3.5 times after fleeing Katrina's wrath. Only Baton Rouge and Houston took in more people than Atlanta, with those cities and their new residents facing more dire circumstances. "I didn't go through living on a bridge and people pointing guns at me," says Hayes...
...clot. It works by poisoning an enzyme in your liver that helps produce clotting factors. Its blood thinning (anticoagulating) effect comes on slowly but can quickly become (dangerously) greater than we want when you take different drugs or even different foods. The anticoagulation we want can easily overshoot - with dire consequences. It also can render ineffective or too effective, other drugs that are processed in the liver. Getting you on just the right dose of coumadin takes about a week, then you show up and get your blood drawn every week to make sure the level of anticoagulation is staying...
...audits dissuade businesses from cheating on their taxes. But the immigration service would need more funds and there would have to be real commitment on the part of the Administration, something Keeley says does not exist. "It's not even a policy of triage, the absence of resources are dire," he says...