Word: parlous
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...unobtrusive presence in most rooms, entering briskly with a dark suit and meticulously combed hair and sometimes leaving even more abruptly to take a key call from Washington. He spends part of each month shuttling between Cambridge and the capital—making for a few parlous hours of the workweek when he can’t be reached by cell phone...
...Such a policy would still require spending lots of money, time and diplomatic effort on our part pulling in more help from our allies. But it also bows to the realities of our predicament and probably gives the Iraqis greater urgency to form their own government, however democratic or parlous. A deadline for reducing our involvement might also win us greater international support...
...virtually impenetrable security of a BSL-4 facility enables researchers to work with such parlous pathogens as aerosol-state Anthrax...
...this year to reach just 0.4%, and the prospect of ceding even more power to Brussels. Neither Sweden nor the U.K. are hurting because they kept their own coins; indeed, both are growing more than the euro zone. But the euro isn't to blame for Continental stagnation; the parlous finances and lack of reform in Germany, France and Italy are. "We are a small, orderly country that plays by the rules," says Olof Ruin, a Stockholm political scientist, "and there was skepticism over France and Germany's failure to abide by the rules." The absence of Sweden...
...comes as no surprise that the relationship between the professional classes of the supposedly autonomous Special Administrative Region and the handpicked mandarins who govern them is in this parlous state. Beijing's high-handed manner?and the supine appeasement with which the Hong Kong government generally greets its pronouncements?has left many feeling voiceless over the past six years...