When you find yourself in dire straits, just run away.
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It just illustrates the dire straits the company is in.
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Humanity is in dire straits from some otherworldly, metaphysical threat.
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The economies of both countries are already in dire straits.
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The rankings show that some states are in dire straits.
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In some cases, Oklahoma's public schools face unusually dire straits.
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There is no question that Viacom is in dire straits.
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It's not his actual campaign that's in truly dire straits.
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All American Sadie was saved from dire straits in Kentucky.
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The family is in dire straits; it's not genteel poverty.
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That Puerto Rico is in dire straits is an understatement.
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Does everybody in such dire straits get asked this question?
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T he North Sea oil industry is in dire straits.
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Following so many arrests, Bruce was already in financial dire straits.
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The Iranian regime was by many reports in dire, dire straits.
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After the 2008 financial crisis, the economy was in dire straits.
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The GDB's financial situation is in such dire straits that Gov.
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Is the middle class in dire straits, as Mr. Sanders contends?
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The defector painted his birth country as one in dire straits.
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" Acuity Brands: "It's not [in] dire straits, it's just unexciting straits.
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The grocery chain has been in dire straits in recent months.
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There is no doubt that local journalism is in dire straits.
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" He then segued into the fact that "California is in dire straits.
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It probably goes without saying, but US journalism is in dire straits.
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Bon Jovi, Nina Simone, The Moody Blues, The Cars, and Dire Straits.
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NINETEEN YEARS AGO the Asian financial crisis left Indonesia in dire straits.
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Taiwan: Increasingly dire straits China is ramping up its campaign against Taiwan.
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"No dogs needed emergency care or were in dire straits," she said.
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But those plans have also helped put his economy in dire straits.
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As we've reported, Dame's recently fallen into dire straits with his money.
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" Officials told the OIG that the Jordanian program was in "dire straits.
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Even with the pipeline flowing, the Kurdish economy is in dire straits.
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By about Day 4, Officer Cirrito was in dire straits, he said.
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Their charge is to clothe, feed and cure people in dire straits.
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Some end up in dire straits or in trouble with the law.
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Colobane, which is also the birthplace of Mambéty, is in dire straits.
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The only other obvious asset of his, Faraday Future, is in dire straits.
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In dire straits, Cerrone went back to that step up left low kick.
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Dire Straits, reggae and Stevie Wonder, also blind, he heard on the radio.
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"In some ways, Southern California is in much more dire straits," he said.
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Many paraplegics and elders with Alzheimer's left alone will be in dire straits.
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She was easily outraged when she saw other Puerto Ricans in dire straits.
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Yet the resort, owned by the union since 1967, is in dire straits.
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And so, with the company in dire straits, the internet unleashed some brutal memes.
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They will be inducted alongside Nina Simone, The Cars, Bon Jovi, and Dire Straits.
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Bon Jovi, the Cars, Dire Straits and the Moody Blues rounded out that group.
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When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, the company was in dire straits.
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Years of economic decline and fiscal mismanagement have left Puerto Rico in dire straits.
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Chronic underfunding, lax government oversight and serial bankruptcies have left them in dire straits.
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That is because those facing removal from their homes are often already in dire straits.
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Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer takes over a party that was in dire straits six weeks ago.
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"This is a place that has been in dire straits for four decades," Cooper said.
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The first rock and roll song I ever heard was Dire Straits, "Money for Nothing".
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TMZ broke the story ... Demi was in dire straits after she OD'd earlier this week.
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Maybe it was the trench humor, the dark comedy of the climber in dire straits.
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That's a burden on the border countries, and it leaves refugees themselves in dire straits.
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In other rich countries, people in dire straits need not worry about paying for health care.
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"The fact that he was in dire straits, really affected us," friend Don Vanderburg told KVUE.
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If the Republicans' problem were general malaise, we'd expect Democrats to be facing comparably dire straits.
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Economic indexes have improved under Rouhani's government and the economy is no longer in dire straits.
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Mick Jagger and David Bowie sing with Dire Straits at Princes Trust concert in June 1986.
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Q: Is it difficult to see ex-players in dire straits because of bad financial decisions?
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English rockers Dire Straits, which includes brothers Mark and David Knopfler, blended blues into their music.
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More than three years ago, the 18-bed rural hospital he runs was in dire straits.
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The Astros appeared in dire straits after seemingly blowing their best scoring opportunity in the seventh inning.
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The Falcons are not in dire straits, and Ryan and Jones could woo some good free agents.
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But, two major scenes from season 1 can help explain the dire straits of our new narrator.
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And the NHS seems in dire straits, with waiting times for hospital beds and doctors' appointments rising.
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Following its pork crisis, China's poultry farmers are now in dire straits because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Nonetheless, it adds to a growing picture of the dire straits the country now finds itself in.
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"There were so many films out that were announcing what dire straits we were in," he says.
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But if Kavanaugh's nomination really is in dire straits, it could be a huge problem for McConnell.
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I was surprised that in 1952, seven years after the war, London was still in dire straits.
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Nigeria's economy, dependent on oil (the price of which has slumped since 2014) is in dire straits.
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It's oddly comforting and is the rare show where people in legitimate dire straits get actual help.
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The dire straits in which we find Oklahoma's education system is not a stroke of bad luck.
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The Soviet Union was choking on corruption at this point, and its people were in dire straits.
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Worryingly, most Americans are unaware of the dire straits in which the American-German relationship finds itself.
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Over the past week, Mulvaney has found himself in increasingly dire straits at precisely the wrong time.
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Given that Puerto Rico is still in dire straits, Trump is not exactly riding a high horse here.
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The Democratic Party is in even more dire straits, with a net negative 25 point deficit with independents.
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We're told the 911 call did not come a minute too soon, because Demi was in dire straits.
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Paul McCartney, Dire Straits, Stevie Wonder, The Police, The Rolling Stones and Elton John among others recorded there.
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Over the next few years, we discussed everything from psychedelics to meditation to the merits of Dire Straits.
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In any case, the Weinstein Company is certainly in financial dire straits already: It's currently slouching toward bankruptcy.
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An increasingly thin, shredding safety net means there are more families in a permanent state of dire straits.
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I had grown up with her; not quite with women in her situation, but women in dire straits.
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It expects a second quarter loss of €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion), and its van business is in dire straits.
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"When they finally get a chance to look at their marriage, it's in pretty dire straits," Foy told PEOPLE.
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With a 45 percent poverty rate and staggering debt of $70 billion, Puerto Rico was already in dire straits.
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" Lofgren said the designated countries often remain in dire straits, and sending people back to them would be "unwise.
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In such dire straits, it's hard not to gravitate toward one of the few characters written with any consistency.
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Recognizing his wife's dire straits, Chuck suggests a bargain: accept a suspension and probation in exchange for eventual expunction.
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It could make the case for repeal stronger if the Affordable Care Act seems to be in dire straits.
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But residents remained in dire straits on Friday, with fuel, clean water, ice and other basic supplies running short.
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The (10) million-dollar problem, and a possible saviorBut not everyone sees the space as being in dire straits.
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"We were in dire straits," said Cheryl McKinnon, the mayor of Loddon Shire, the municipality that includes Pyramid Hill.
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" Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever, said the "very need for this report shows that we are in dire straits.
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It's been a rough few years for Necco, a company that's been in financial dire straits since the early aughts.
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Maybe now that it's their town that's said to be in 'dire straits,' these questions will finally get some traction.
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Many of those who backed the tax cuts opposed Barack Obama's 2009 stimulus, when the economy was in dire straits.
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What's more, this would do little to help Puerto Rico reverse the conditions that led its economy to dire straits.
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We are in such dire straits now, with little chance of averting dangerous climate change, because of decades of inaction.
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It never works out that way," O'Leary tells CNBC Make It, referencing lyrics from Dire Straits' song "Money for Nothing.
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While the fight for control over Mr. Redstone's business empire has reached a resolution, Viacom's business is in dire straits.
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Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, the Moody Blues, the Cars, and Nina Simone are all included in the class of 2018.
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Yet a surprise cut of this magnitude signals that the country might be in more dire straits than initially thought.
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Receivership is a last resort that allows the federal government to take control of public housing authorities in dire straits.
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Bon Jovi, Nina Simone, Dire Straits and others enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in this 33rd annual celebration.
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While working towards democracy, the new civilian transition government has also taken steps to navigate the country's financial dire straits.
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TMZ broke the story ... Demi was in dire straits when she OD'd earlier this week in her Hollywood Hills home.
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New photos from the set of Game of Thrones in Spain show a major character in dire straits: one Theon Greyjoy.
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Nina Simone, Judas Priest, Kate Bush, Eurythmics, Dire Straits, The Moody Blues, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe are also first-time nominees.
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This has left parts of the industry, as well as many of the banks that lent to it, in dire straits.
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The world economy is not performing wonderfully, especially following the Brexit vote, but it's hardly dire straits in the wealthier countries.
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He grew up singing in a mission choir and listened to the music of Dire Straits, Cliff Richard and Stevie Wonder.
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I recall that she was always in dire straits financially with the organization because she was very idealistic and overextended herself.
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The economy is in dire straits, especially in the aftermath of west Africa's Ebola epidemic, which has crippled the tourist industry.
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The months leading up to the festival were filled with signs that the festival, and the company, were in dire straits.
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The Venezuelans who are crossing over are in increasingly dire straits, selling off all that they have to escape unbearable conditions.
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That's a natural and proper response to the need for social distancing, but it leaves many business owners in dire straits.
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The right's starting point is the same as the left's: our society is in dire straits, and liberalism is to blame.
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In Georgia, cheaters can&apost receive alimonyYup, as soon as you cheat, you might be putting yourself in economic dire straits.
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The pair quickly figured out Poncho was in dire straits: He would not stand up or take a milk substitute or hay.
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Just months ago Elon Musk's automaker seemed to be in dire straits, scrambling to raise capital, closing stores and facing slumping sales.
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Parents in economically dire straits often hand their male children over to these schools in order to secure them a better future.
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Photo via Despite Toronto's insistence on branding itself as a music city, another long-running black-owned festival is in dire straits.
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The company was in such dire straits that, in 2014, it eventually sought out Marcus Lemonis for a much-needed helping hand.
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Romney was perhaps brought in by reputation since he had saved the 2002 Winter Olympics, which likewise had fallen into dire straits.
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The United States has laid much of the blame for Gaza's dire straits at the feet of the authority's president, Mahmoud Abbas.
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The 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees are: Bon Jovi (above), the Cars, Dire Straits, the Moody Blues and Nina Simone.
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Dr. Blau said he discovered that most scientists appreciated the opportunity to offer their arcane knowledge to aid people in dire straits.
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She says that after General Motors left the city, the city's economic conditions severely declined, causing a domino effect of dire straits.
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As cute as stranded pups might be, a high number of incidents is a significant sign of a species in dire straits.
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When we've seen these individuals de-cloaked—often very publicly and often amidst legal dire straits—the underlying personalities are frequently very… different.
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If envy were the crucial criterion, we would underpay rock stars (think Dire Straits: "That ain't workin'; that's the way you do it").
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Many Brazilian sugar mills remain in dire straits, their finances under severe strain because of large debt loads accumulated over the past decade.
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Millman, from that advocacy group, blamed the human smugglers whom desperate people resort to in order to escape dire straits in their homelands.
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When you look at the people who are in dire straits financially, particularly in their older years, almost all of them are women.
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His predecessor left Argentina's economy is in dire straits: in 2015 it ran a 5.8% fiscal deficit; inflation is currently at around 30%.
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A profit warning from cement maker Adelaide Brighton Ltd on Wednesday highlighted the dire straits of demand and hammered shares across the industry.
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They are Nina Simone, the Eurythmics, Dire Straits, Judas Priest, Kate Bush, Moody Blues, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
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The Democrats are in dire straits, stuck in the generational vortex of the Clinton camp and will be so for a long time.
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Following that, Cramer wondered if the bounce is sustainable and presents an investment opportunity or if the company is truly in dire straits.
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A great number of Obama detractors have forgotten how the American economy was in dire straits when Obama took office eight years ago.
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At worst, it leaves communities with weaker public health apparati in dire straits as they manage the local consequences of a global epidemic.
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But Apple spent a long time in dire straits while he pushed his high-level concepts about security, privacy, and design and simplicity.
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In 1997, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell was asked for his opinion on Apple, which, at the time, was in dire straits.
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He was Australia's hedonist hero, a painter of grand and voluptuous canvases who hung out with Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Dire Straits.
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Earlier this year, Nasrallah declared that Hezbollah was in financial dire straits and urged his supporters to help raise funds for the group.
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The entire Alberta economy is in dire straits, with the price of oil dipping below $28 a barrel last week — the lowest since 2003.
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The five lucky newcomers earlier this year were Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, The Cars, Moody Blues and the late jazz/soul songstress Nina Simone.
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The company behind Project Bloodhound, a UK-based initiative to break 21997,21997 miles per hour in a rocket-powered car, is in dire straits.
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"Somebody who is doing sex work to get by and is in dire straits does not have $300 to place an ad," Rhee says.
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"The economy is in dire straits but the EU and the U.N. are there to help," said a Western diplomat in the capital Banjul.
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Paula Schneider, who took over as American Apparel's chief executive in January 2015, painted a picture of a company that was in dire straits.
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Fortunately, Girls leaves behind a six-season legacy of reactions, one-liners, and hilarious moments we can call upon in our most dire straits.
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It's not unusual for him to field a call in the middle of the night and talk for hours with someone in dire straits.
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Many argued that funds spent on medical bills abroad could be used to develop the country's health care system which is in dire straits.
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"She has this bubbly, outgoing personality, and it was really kind of devastating to realize that she was in such dire straits," Nottage recalled.
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One year after becoming a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, Chinese EV startup NIO appears to be in dire straits.
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When Greece, Spain and Portugal were in dire straits during the last decade, German leaders scolded them over their economic policies and high debt.
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And while Kessler is a particularly pathetic figure, hated even by many on the alt-right, the movement in general is in dire straits.
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That sounds like a fairy tale for the business, but the truth of the matter is that the Wii's success left Nintendo in dire straits.
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" The economy, added the monitoring group, "is in particularly dire straits, with foreign reserves rapidly diminishing, growing inflation and rapid depreciation of the national currency.
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"I think quantitative easing (QE) seems to be working in many parts of Europe now, I don't think we are in dire straits," Black said.
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It was an ambitious timeline for the developer of any big online game, let alone one in the dire straits Interplay had found itself in.
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But a lot of voters who are in very dire straits get scared by transformational change — even if they could use a lot of help.
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The Vermont senator recognized that we are in dire straits, and that bold, transformative action must be taken to change the course of climate change.
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Judge Abdus-Salaam lived part time on 131st Street, on a block filled with brownstones that two or three decades ago was in dire straits.
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It is well past time that the political system and the Postal Service got serious about the dire straits of the Postal Service's basic operations.
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These dire straits have been made even worse by the actions of the island's publicly run power utility, the Puerto Rico Electrical Power Authority (PREPA).
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In the meantime, Schmidt loses his vows — which plunges him into such dire straits that he has to enlist "the greatest writer of our time," a.k.a.
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While the news has gotten plenty of notice, we're here to say not to worry: the world isn't in as dire straits as his nomination suggests.
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The path to what would lead to Tabata — and Square Enix's success — is not nearly as glamorous as the series' dire straits would make it seem.
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It is a testament to the magnitude of mismanagement in Venezuela that a country with more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia has reached such dire straits.
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"A big part of the blame for this industry's dire straits is on us and our unwillingness to pay for the work journalists produce," Oliver said.
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Maybe it's a stable settlement, maybe there are some parts of the world that aren't in such dire straits as the southeastern U.S. It's intensely intriguing.
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According to his attorneys, XXX is gonna be in dire straits financially if he isn't allowed to tour and reap the benefits of his latest work.
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The Cars, as well as first-time contenders Dire Straits, The Moody Blues and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, also are part of the 2018 class announced Wednesday.
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It portrays a company in dire straits being presided over by a longtime chairman, the 76-year-old Len Riggio, who spends his time berating subordinates.
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The law was necessary because federal law prohibits Puerto Rico from entering bankruptcy, which is what mainland cities and counties could do in similarly dire straits.
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"Everyone tries to grow their own potatoes," said Mr. Kolganov, laughing when told that a few university professors had denied knowing anyone in such dire straits.
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The Kim family lives in dire straits in the slums of Korea, folding pizza boxes for pennies and losing profits when their boxes fail quality control.
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Maybe you yourself weren't in dire straits, but you felt pinched, you felt like the fancy people were telling you your way of life was bad.
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Many Iranians -- desperate for relief from financial dire straits partly caused by US sanctions -- are reacting with defiance rather than antagonism as the countries hurtle towards confrontation.
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And it didn't rank too favorably for upper-income males, either — although the brand is in not as dire straits with men as it is with women.
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The actress who played Violet in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" recently suffered a stroke that's left her in critical condition ... and her family in dire straits.
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Daiwa was "well aware" of the dire straits Saad and Sanea were in at the time and Singularis has been the victim of Daiwa's negligence, it added.
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Rey is a scrapper from a sandy nowhere, in dire straits until a high-stakes emergency intervenes, and strong enough in the Force to make everybody nervous.
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"For the ECB their problem is that there is even more pressure because they face the third largest euro zone economy - Italy - in dire straits," Dwane said.
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It's Mark Knopfler, who used to be the lead singer of Dire Straits, and the song is "What It Is." It has to be perfectly cued up.
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Jabbing Stephens into pulling his head back for the pull right hand that he has used recently would leave him in dire straits should Choi's right hand follow.
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The story of how America's water systems found themselves in such dire straits begins with a post–World War II infrastructure boom followed by 40 years of neglect.
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The group was in such dire straits that analysts and Israeli security officials warned it might provoke a new war out of sheer desperation to shake things up.
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If Rick Ross was in dire straits earlier this month, he didn't show it at all while doing TWO shows this weekend ... on both sides of the country.
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Shaun Weiss -- who played Goldberg in "The Mighty Ducks" -- got arrested in Northern California, and based on his mug shot ... the former child star is in dire straits.
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But with the economy still in dire straits, that rally, based on investor bets that embattled President Dilma Rousseff may soon be impeached, has probably run its course.
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About 1.3 million Venezuelans have crossed into neighboring Colombia, fleeing political and economic turmoil, and their dire straits make them vulnerable to forced labor and exploitation, they said.
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There's no denying the oceans are in dire straits, and it's going to take a lot of action, from consumers to national policy makers, to clean them up.
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Speaking of the dire straits that the Virginia GOP is in, one strategist said: at some point, it stops being 'never Trump,' ...and it starts being 'never republican.
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She says she predicts that the sanctions-ridden economy will remain in dire straits for "as long as the mullahs are in power," referring to Iran's ruling clergy.
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Is there anything in this world that can't be improved by Dire Straits' "Walk of Life," the band's seminal slap-happy ode to just being a person, man?
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One such title was Dire Straits, a Time Teletext video game in the art deco style that ran users through a murder mystery set on a cruise liner.
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The lawsuit filed on Monday included comments from some of New York City's largest brokerage firms, which portrayed the industry as being in dire straits after the ruling.
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It worried me that people in such dire straits would tap a stranger they stumbled upon online or in a bookstore for legal, financial, or mental health advice.
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The couple, Justin explained to MUNCHIES over email Wednesday morning, first began loving Olive Garden in the fall of 2015, when they were just newlyweds in financial dire straits.
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These included cutting severance pay for permanent staff in order to make temporary contracts less attractive to bosses, and allowing firms in dire straits to depart from wage bargains.
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GE paid $17bn to buy the Alstom assets; their subsequent underperformance explains part of the American conglomerate's present dire straits, including the $23bn loss it reported in October 22013.
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"The fact that it has not already asked for help is quite surprising considering that it's the country as perceived as being in the most dire straits," he said.
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Britain's once-mighty steel industry looked in dire straits Wednesday with politicians and union leaders calling for state intervention that could even mean a re-nationalization of the sector.
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But Correa's plan weren't entirely well-received, and some officials have complained that the economy is already in such dire straits that the country can't afford a tax hike.
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Facebook may look like a juggernaut now, but social networks have fallen before, and if this attack destroys that trust, the company could quickly find itself in dire straits.
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He taught himself how to play by listening to pirated cassettes of Ali Farka Touré, Dire Straits and Jimi Hendrix, although he often didn't know what he was hearing.
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He was mesmerized by the interplay of Dire Straits: "The kind of familial sort of exchanges they would have musically, it touched me in a profound way," he said.
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The city's asphalt road network is in dire straits, and will only get worse as damage from flooding and freak weather increases due to the impact of climate change.
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With the coronavirus pandemic crippling the industry and airlines asking for bailouts, consumers are asking how the airlines with billion-dollar profits can find themselves in such dire straits.
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Mr O'Hanlon notes that "the military is not in dire straits", and that Congress "should be pushing harder to see what the services can do to manage the force better".
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New York City's subway system is in dire straits, and according to the Office of the Governor, it'll cost upwards of $22 billion in order to comprehensively improve the system.
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"Mob Wives" star Big Ang is in dire straits in her fight against stage 4 lung and brain cancer so her family is turning to marijuana as a last resort.
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A scandal, however, shakes their seemingly perfect marriage, at the very moment that family upheaval brings her home to New Orleans, where her father's sugar plantation is in dire straits.
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The first step is to recognize that Haiti, a nation of 11 million just over 800 miles south of Florida, is in dire straits and getting worse by the day.
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If North Korean soldiers in the Joint Security Area, typically the most elite of the country's military, are malnourished, then the average North Korean must be in dire straits indeed.
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That is a good standard for anyone not old enough to tell us what they would want abd are in as dire straits as Charlie's doctors believe him to be.
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With the Republican health care bill in dire straits, the Democratic Party's most high-profile politicians have embraced Sanders's "Medicare-for-all" rallying cry in interviews and on the stump.
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Argentina is in "dire straits on the growth front and it's not going to turn around overnight," Gofshteyn said, adding growth dynamics should improve in the back half of the year.
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Acknowledging criticism that not just the animals but all of Taiz's 240,000 people are in dire straits, she said she and her team of online organizers would stick to their mission.
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Britney Spears is in dire straits and a judge needs to protect her ... this according to Lynne Spears, who's acting quickly to make sure her own lawyer can argue her cause.
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Two banks—Veneto Banca and Banco Popolare di Vicenza—are in especially dire straits: the European Central Bank wants them to raise €1 billion and €1.5 billion respectively in extra capital.
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The president of Africa's most populous country has also faced criticism for seeking treatment abroad when critics say he should be fixing the nation's health system, which is in dire straits.
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Beyond consoling victims and educating the public, Trump should convene a high-level discussion about the economic future of Puerto Rico, which was in dire straits even before the hurricane hit.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - NATO member Germany's air force is in dire straits and funds are urgently needed to modernize its weaponry and systems, the air force chief of staff said on Wednesday.
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Tons of celebs -- including Macklemore -- have showered the singer with strong words of encouragement following an overdose earlier this week at her Hollywood HIlls home that left her in dire straits.
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But about a decade ago, Mr. Cifuentes, then in his 40s, was in dire straits, recovering from pancreatic surgery and saddled with a large debt from his recently murdered older brother.
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The Walking Dead The ambiguous conclusion of last week's episode left the fan favorite Ezekiel in dire straits, as his loyal subjects dove to protect him from a hail of gunfire.
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But his British restaurants ran into financial trouble in 2016 and got into such dire straits that Mr. Oliver had to inject millions from his own savings to salvage the business.
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Mike Walden, a former truck driver and Teamster retiree from Akron, Ohio, recognized years ago that pensions such as the one he receives from the Central States were in dire straits.
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Gergen writes that he spotted Hammer in 1978, when the team was in dire straits and attendances were plummeting: After graduating from high school, Hammer attended a local college in Oakland.
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While the love story of terrible note taker Amber (iZombie's Rose McIver) and bland prince Richard (Ben Lamb) anchors our return to Aldovia, we find the fictional kingdom is in dire straits.
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Steven Rattner THANKS disproportionately to their mother, my kids have a gratifyingly acute sense of the urgency of addressing the dire straits in which far too much of the world's population lives.
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The 2018 inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced Wednesday morning, and this year's class includes a trio of '80s legends: Bon Jovi, Dire Straits and The Cars.
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With the economy stuck in dire straits during and after the Great Recession, the FOMC cut the fed funds rate to close to zero and held it there for roughly six years.
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"I think other crops are in less dire straits because they grow in a place where there's a lot of land to their north and to their south and uphill," said Ricketts.
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The U.S. territory is still in dire straits from Hurricane Maria, which has left the entire island without power and upwards of 60 percent of the population without access to potable water.
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That leaves acquiring clubs looking to deal with motivated sellers, those teams in such dire straits that they have to move someone to show their fans they're aware something unpleasant is happening.
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But so far, an incipient campaign to stop Mr. Johnson has failed to gain traction and with the Conservative Party in dire straits, many feel they have little choice but to gamble.
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And as sick people rush into the hospital system, they could infect health care workers — as well as other vulnerable patients, particularly the elderly — leaving the system in even more dire straits.
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"This is going to hit us very hard," Martinez said, noting that El Convento would likely be affected for months but was not in as dire straits as many tourist-dependent businesses.
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Still, Blanchflower's main message - that Western economies are in dire straits unless they take more radical measures - is a welcome corrective to the idea that low unemployment numbers indicate rude economic health.
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State-owned banks account for 27% of all loans but are in dire straits after having extended credit to large industrial groups which went on to finance projects that failed to pay off.
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A year later, little more than 50,000 miners are working, but the industry is still in dire straits—layoffs and mine shutdowns have led to rampant unemployment in West Virginia, Kentucky and Montana.
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However, based on a filing ZTE made earlier today, the company seems to be in dire straits as it announced it was ceasing "major operating activities" as a result of the denial order.
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Cruz is hardly in dire straits financially -- he raised $2 million on Tuesday, his campaign said, and his super PACs sit on a largely untouched financial reserve of tens of millions of dollars.
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While workers whom Moncla let go early on have found work in other industries, the cream of the crop who survived the first round of layoffs is now in dire straits, he said.
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Jet isn't the only Indian airline in dire straits — the country's national carrier, Air India, is surviving on billions of dollars of taxpayer money after a failed attempt to privatize it last year.
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"These are greatly reduced expectations, so I hope they do beat these expectations, because otherwise we'd really be in dire straits," said Michael Mullaney, chief investment officer at Fiduciary Trust Co in Boston.
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While lawmakers and several senior Presidential political appointees still get paid during the shutdown, hundreds of thousands of Americans (plus their families and the businesses they spend money with) are in dire straits.
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That said my mum and dad's old record collection spans everything from old Michael Jackson, to Stevie Wonder, to other stuff on Motown, to Trojan Records, then to Dire Straits and the Police.
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Global Shopping MADRID — Living in Madrid for the last 15 years, I've witnessed a transformation in the city's shopping experience so astonishingly favorable that it defies warnings about the dire straits of retail.
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From major museums to independent galleries and nonprofits, cancellations and closures have already begun to impact the function of many businesses, not to mention leaving freelance and part-time workers in dire straits.
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Tsai's 2020 chances had appeared to be in dire straits only last year, after a landslide win for the KMT in local elections in 2018 saw her resign as head of the DPP.
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The security forces are still loyal to him, partly because he has made sure that soldiers and intelligence officers have been relatively well paid, no matter the dire straits of the national economy.
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As he and the other kids are fighting for their lives and their world, Dustin brings levity to their dire straits by exalting the beauty of chocolate pudding or charming viewers with his lisp.
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In the movie The Secret Life of Pets, there's a part where two dogs are in dire straits, running away from a pack of angry dogs and lost in New York City's sewage pipes.
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After a run-in with some zombie and meeting the secondary protagonist Claire Redfield at a gas station, Leon heads to the city police department where he finds things to be in dire straits.
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While the world is not in as dire straits as in 2008 and 2009, "we're starting to enter that territory unless governments around the world get a grip ... on targeted fiscal policy," Swan said.
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While experts say such measures would be ineffective — diverting resources better devoted to scaling up hospitals and aiding people in dire straits due to other impacts of the virus — they might be legally possible.
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While the studio band for "Slow Train Coming" featured Mark Knopfler and Pick Withers of Dire Straits, Mr. Dylan's touring band was American and mostly Southern, steeped in gospel, the blues, rock and reggae.
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And when even poorer people show up, people who are in more dire straits than the Kims or the Parks, the movie pointedly makes it clear to us that they have, and enjoy, sex.
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In OPEC-member Venezuela, there are signs that state-owned producer PDVSA is in dire straits over the oil price crash as it has requested partners to pay for naphtha imported to produce exportable crudes.
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Linda White, the assistant national secretary of the Australian Services Union, which represents nearly 7,13 Qantas employees, remains sceptical the airline was ever in truly dire straits when it announced 5,000 job cuts in 2014.
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One of the coolest interviews we did was with Richard Ravitch, who was running the subways the last time they were in dire straits back in 1979, because we want to get that historical perspective.
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Most of the U.S. agricultural sector is in dire straits from a lethal trifecta of "adverse weather, weak commodity prices and trade disruptions," according to the latest report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
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After much discussion, we decided the best thing to do was plan for multiple streams of income so that if we ever found ourselves in dire straits again, we would at least have rental revenue.
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But this kind of stoic thinking is of course what leads Louis and Rachel into such dire straits—because they can't grieve themselves, they can't talk to their child in a healthy way about death.
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Seen as the most comprehensive and rigorous assessment on the state of the environment, the U.N.'s Global Environment Outlook said human health - was in "dire straits" due to unsustainable development and poor environmental protection.
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Others who are in really dire straits might seek out a payday loan, but those are woefully predatory options — so much so that Google finally decided to ban those ads from lenders on its search engine.
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Eight of the 19 nominees for 2018 induction, including 1980s rock band Dire Straits, electro-pop band Depeche Mode and progressive 1960s rockers the Moody Blues - best known for "Nights in White Satin" - are British musicians.
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"It is a very big problem that has left farmers across the country in dire straits," Rakesh Tikait, spokesperson of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Indian Farmers' Union) told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview.
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He has listened closely to the woes of dairy farmers in dire straits, to families who have had to travel hundreds of miles to the closest maternity ward, to students struggling to pay off student loans.
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On campus, your relation may be in much more dire straits, having their minds shaped in the midst of the unparalleled and unmitigated rage of the American left, where "cancel culture" and groupthink overshadows academic debate.
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It is very nearly beyond salvation, in such dire straits that a man who was having a wonderful time in business felt called upon to serve as "your voice" because "only I can fix it" the problem.
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But none of this is new: To be priced competitively, hair dealers have always had to undercut the women selling their hair, which is why dealers have historically flocked to places where women are in dire straits.
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It also sees companies which it holds partially responsible for these dire straits using their ever greater profits (see chart 2139) to funnel cash to stockholders, rather than investing them in ways that make everyone's life better.
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So, on the eve of the Muslim month-long fasting period of Ramadan, which begins in early June — traditionally a time for giving to charity, and for family and friends — Libyans find their finances in dire straits.
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If they were to lose both players — and it's very early to even begin speculating about such things — the Clippers could be in dire straits, as the Thunder will have control over five of the team's picks.
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On the other hand, Russia is not withdrawing completely; hence, President Assad may view this as a promise that Russian support will be available again if negotiations break down and government forces find themselves in dire straits.
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Low-wage workers at chain restaurants can often be teenagers or cash-strapped adults who are in such financial dire straits that they're treated as if they're expendable, or, worse, convinced that their experiences might not matter.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Bees may not be in quite as dire straits as many of us thought they were last year, but they still represent a vital part of our ecosystem, and a threatened one.
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Those attributes haven't helped keep the economy from falling into dire straits, with 2016 growth not expected to top 1 percent, while its debt load nearly doubled from $11.7 billion in 2012 to nearly $23 billion in 2015.
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The Republican bill to repeal and replace major parts of Obamacare was in dire straits Wednesday after the Trump administration failed to convince members of a key conservative group in the House of Representatives to support the bill.
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Blue Jays 4, Yankees 2 TORONTO — A sign of how the Yankees' offense is in dire straits arrived in the ninth inning Monday when Manager Joe Girardi took the bats out of the hands of two struggling stalwarts.
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De Blasio told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the city would not raise taxes but would instead fund the program through the city's public health care system, which is now in better financial shape after years of dire straits.
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Syrian refugees born in Lebanon, for instance, may be in especially dire straits because so many of their fathers are dead or missing; Lebanon and Syria are among the 27 countries, and Lebanon is among the most restrictive.
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In one of the night's biggest surprises, he even won handily in Massachusetts, leapfrogging both Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who finished in a disappointing third place in her home state and now finds her campaign in dire straits.
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Joe Biden's campaign will be in dire straits if he underperforms in the primary on Tuesday, and this weekend he seemed more desperate than ever to thwart the momentum of his top rivals, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders.
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The clash also took place against a backdrop of a Trump campaign in dire straits, as the reverberations from a 2005 video in which the nominee spoke in lurid and aggressive terms about women continue to be felt.
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Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information Service, said northeastern refiners on the brink of bankruptcy are not in dire straits because of the policy, but due to competition from Gulf Coast and Middle East.
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"We've strung together an impressive number of outages and supply disruptions for the moment, but there's every incentive in the dire straits the industry's been in to get these barrels on line," said John Kilduff, partner with Again Capital.
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In addition, 45 percent of hospitals reported robberies and shootings, the report showed, in the latest sign of how Venezuela's five years of recession have left the country's hospitals, once among the best in Latin America, in dire straits.
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But he compiled an album of recordings made at the studio by Mr. McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, the Police, Elton John and others as a charity for the 12,000 people who lost their homes in the storm.
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Desperate For Help Then, one day, an online search — and who knows what I actually typed in, but it's possible it was "In dire straits please help rescue us" — turned up a strategy we'd never considered: a financial therapist.
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That way you'll start to feel hope, and hope is important – it's one of the few things in life that's free, which is important when you're in dire straits, looking to get out from a bad situation, or completely lost.
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Oh, and you may have heard there were a few men around to be inducted too — the Moody Blues, Dire Straits, the Cars, and yes, Bon Jovi, who took up over an hour of the ceremony with speeches and performances.
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Since then, doubts weighed over whether Saudi Arabia and Iran could put their geopolitical disputes aside and whether countries whose finances are in dire straits due to low oil prices would resist the urge to pump crude at high rates.
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" Randall Baron, a lawyer for Good's shareholders, said in an interview, "On many fronts J. P. Morgan was using Good Technology, and the dire straits its conflicted directors put it in, to benefit the bank immediately and in the future.
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Probably the only plausible break here is Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing," whose video featured then-revolutionary, now-hilarious CGI animation: Many analysts believe that improvements in artificial intelligence and robotics will decrease the demand for human labor going forward.
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The Packers are in dire straits with Hundley, who was rarely asked to throw the ball more than five yards on Monday night, but they at least have the benefit of having a long-term plan at quarterback (hint: It's Rodgers).
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The now seven-year-old young adult male bear, who grew fat enough this summer for Katmai National Park rangers to include him in the 2503 Fat Bear Week competition, found himself in dire straits in the summer of 2014.
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"The pricing mechanisms that caused steel and aluminum to be in dire straits in the first place, weren't fundamentally altered by the tariffs," said Paul, who pointed to U.S. Steel's recent closure of a Detroit plant that resulted in 1,500 layoffs.
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It's hard to compare Trump's and Obama's job creation, since Obama took office when the economy was in dire straits and Trump took office when the economy -- despite his claim it was on a precipice -- appeared to be doing well.
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His description of African-American life was also often exceedingly dark and broad-brushed, as he equated the lives of poor African-Americans living in inner cities with those of all African-Americans, most of whom do not live in dire straits.
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Will is from a part of rural Pennsylvania that's in dire straits from the opioid epidemic — the type of community where many individuals have spiraled down into the darker parts of the web, forwarding emails that promote Islamophobia, as Mensa describes it.
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The GDB's financial situation is in such dire straits that Garcia Padilla issued an executive order in early April declaring a state of emergency at the bank and initiating capital controls, which froze nearly all withdrawals and suspended the GDB's lending power.
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The Walk of Life Project hinges on a simple, pure, and extremely goofy question: what would happen if you laid Dire Straits' 1985 hit "Walk of Life" over a handful of iconic final sequences from the last half-century of movies and TV?
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Under President Donald Trump, the department has been aggressive in ending TPS categories for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, a majority of whom have lived in the US for upwards of 15 to 20 years and whose countries are still in dire straits.
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The differences in how the industries are regulated have become the subject of intense debate as the yellow cab industry has seen the value of medallions crater, pushing many drivers into financial dire straits — several drivers have committed suicide in recent months.
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His trade war with China has put farmers across the country in potentially dire straits, resulted in outerwear companies paying $1.8 billion more in tariffs, per CNBC, and may have killed 450,000 new job positions by year's end, according to Moody's Analytics.
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Puerto Rico was in dire straits: real GDP had been falling since 2006; migration out was accelerating; and the Commonwealth's debt had risen to the point where further borrowing could take place, if at all, only at a very high interest rate.
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But when the south seceded in 2011, Sudan lost three-quarters of its oil reserves, according to an IMF report, which -- combined with the sanctions -- sent the economy into dire straits and record low GDP Annual Growth Rate of 1.4% in 753.
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They find some safety in numbers when they team up with old school deli man Joe Dixon (Mykelti Williamson), chill Roan-bro Marcos (Joseph Julian Soria) and roving Purge Night nurse Laney Rucker (Betty Gabriel), all of whom are in equally dire straits.
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The songs with the lowest correlation to psychopathic behavior were "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits and The Knack's "My Sharona," which doesn't make sense because the latter track, while a slapper, is definitely about an adult man relentlessly pursuing a teenage girl.
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The security situation in Syria and Iraq are in large measure in dire straits because of unsuitable tactical decisions taken by the United States and the West with little to no consideration of how or whether those actions would contribute to an attainable strategic objective.
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Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — The Beatles 21 — Adele What's the Story Morning Glory — Oasis Thriller — Michael Jackson The Dark Side of the Moon — Pink Floyd Brothers in Arms — Dire Straits Bad — Michael Jackson Greatest Hits II — Queen Have something to add to this story?
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Even before the hurricane, Puerto Rico's water system was in dire straits, with virtually every water customer on the island drinking tap water that violated the Safe Water Drinking Act, according to a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council released earlier this year.
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Kim Han Ryeo-il, who set up a feminist café and bookshop in Seoul's Gangnam district last year, says she wanted to create the kind of place she wished had existed when she was a single mother in dire straits after a divorce years ago.
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ZTE looked to be in dire straits when it ceased its business in the U.S. earlier this month after a Department of Commerce order banned U.S. partners from selling components to the company in response to it flouting trade bans in Iran and North Korea.
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The hip-hop mogul -- who says he's recently fallen into dire straits with money -- was arrested Wednesday in NYC after attempting to clear up two different warrants in his name for unpaid child support dough a judge says he owes Rachel Roy and Cindy Morales.
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Even if Chance the Rapper does manage to "save" SoundCloud by buying it or hooking it up with some big-time investor, the site will have to change the way it does business in order to prevent itself from getting in similarly dire straits again.
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New research published last week on the academic website The Conversation chronicles what that means to the afflicted communities, people who by definition were in sufficiently dire straits as to require international intervention and therefore were easy prey for armed men bearing money and food.
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The nominees are: Bon Jovi, Kate Bush, The Cars, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, Eurythmics, J. Geils Band, Judas Priest, LL Cool J, MC5, The Meters, Moody Blues, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Link Wray, and The Zombies.
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In what looks to be a strong group, there are also nominations for Judas Priest, Depeche Mode, the Cars, Bon Jovi, the Zombies, Dire Straits, Eurythmics, J. Geils Band, MC5, the Meters, the Moody Blues, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Link Wray.
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This continuing resolution would allow a technical adjustment in how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services allocate funds; that means states that are in dire straits because they have already — or are close to — depleting their CHIP funding will be apportioned additional federal dollars through Dec.
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As NPR reports: This will force hundreds of thousands of people already in a precarious position into even more dire straits—if they can't get a job before the rule change goes into effect in April, they will lose one of their only sources of income.
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Perhaps if this president was as preoccupied with saving the lives of 3.5 million American citizens as he is with insulting African-American athletes who are simply exercising their First Amendment rights, maybe our brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico would not be in such dire straits.
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Though most organizations claim to serve a diverse demographic, trans people, women, and people of color working for these groups are rarely in any real positions of power, and in many cases are only a paycheck away from being in the same dire straits as the demographic they serve.
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The spectacle of thousands of former players suing the league for lying to them, and the prospect that some players might have testified in court about the harm they suffered, led the league to promise to pay potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to former players in dire straits.
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If they were in such dire straits, how can the authors explain that just three days prior to the seizures, they had been able to tap the capital markets for $6 billion of unsecured debt in an oversubscribed offering underwritten by a who's who of Wall Street investment banks?
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Draghi has been credited for preventing a break-up of the euro area in the summer of 2012 by saying the ECB would do "whatever it takes" to save the euro, a pledge to help countries in dire straits that quashed speculation against bonds issued by Italy and other indebted countries.
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A large part of the answer, I'd suggest, is that many Republicans now see themselves and/or their party in such dire straits that they're no longer even trying to improve their future electoral position; instead, it's all about grabbing as much for their big donors while they still can.
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - It was a night of nostalgia, with an emphasis on 'better late than never,' as rockers from Bon Jovi, the Cars, Dire Straits and the Moody Blues braved the wet cold of Cleveland on Saturday in the 33rd class inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Germany's Chapel of Disease alloy OSDM with licks reminiscent of metal's progenitors Blue Oyster Cult and Deep Purple, bringing the genre's evolution full-circle on … and as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye (they even threw some Dire Straits chicken-picking in there, and somehow it sounds excellent).
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The band will be inducted along with Nina Simone, the Cars, Dire Straits, the Moody Blues and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who will receive an Award for Early Influence, at the 33rd induction ceremony on April 20043 at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland; the show will be broadcast later by HBO and SiriusXM.
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The Wisla Krakow he rejoined, he knew, was in dire straits, its proud history besmirched after a series of disastrous events involving a hooligan takeover, missing money and a mysterious foreign investor who offered himself as a savior, collected the club's ownership certificates and then — without producing even a single zloty — disappeared.
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After the 1995 run — which featured an eclectic lineup that included the ska-reggae band Sublime, a Tragic Kingdom-era No Doubt, and the grunge pioneers L303 — the tour was in dire straits financially, as the small sponsorships Lyman had landed from brands like Converse and Spin weren't enough to cover the significant production costs.
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Having previously been on track to becoming the world's biggest smartphone maker, Huawei is now in such dire straits that the best metaphor its founder could come up with to allay fears is that the company is like a plane with a hole in its side: not doing great, but still up in the air.
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In American political discourse, those on the side of the sick, poor, and underprivileged tend to favor more federal government intervention and involvement across the board; they see government as accountable to the people, an instrument rather like a charity, through which a community helps those of its members who find themselves in dire straits.
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"For a while, the Mafia depended on public work scams and extortion rackets for much of their money, but with the economy in such a dire straits here, they are returning to their old drug habits," said a senior anti-Mafia magistrate, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
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Limited runs from Painkiller, a live box set of Animal Collective's earliest and strangest releases (that I've since tried to sell on eBay twice in dire straits and have never been able to part with), and specific color variants from Orchid Tapes, who ship all their orders with sweets and tea and other assorted trinkets.
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By the time Queen hit the stage in London, the 70,000 fans at Wembley had already seen performances by Elvis Costello, Dire Straits and Phil Collins, who left immediately after his set with Sting to catch the Concorde to the United States, so he could drum with Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin in Philadelphia.
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I used to do a double take when I saw a homeless person typing away at their phone, but the idea that phones are "luxuries" and that these people might be feigning destitution gave way quickly to the understanding that these devices are as necessary for someone in dire straits as they are for anyone else.
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says Democrats are in dire straits following President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's victory.
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The group's fourth album, "A Deeper Understanding," which comes out on August 25th, is a big and purposeful record that shares some genetic material with late-career releases by Rod Stewart, Dire Straits, Tom Petty, and Don Henley—the songwriting lacks the wholeness and negligence of youth, but hasn't yet been softened by the capitulations of adulthood.
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More than a million people have fled the country since 2015; the health care system is in such dire straits that malaria, once almost wiped out, is soaring; about three quarters of the population has involuntarily lost nearly 20 pounds of weight and people scrounging for food in garbage has become, according to the Brookings Institution, the new normal.
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More traditional throwback acts are among the crop of 19 as well: Dire Straits is nominated for the first time; J. Geils Band, with four previous nominations, is back; Bon Jovi returns for the second time (and first since 2011); and MC5 has its third nomination after missing the final cut last year and in 2003.
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From the first notes of Eve 6's summer-anthem-esque "Open Road Song" to appearances by Smash Mouth, Third Eye Blind, Tone Loc, Dire Straits, Run-DMC and Dog's Eye View (and of course, "Mandy" by Barry Manilow), Can't Hardly Wait's music focused on telling a story in its entirety as opposed to having one song that defined it.
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Actor Seth MacFarlane said Wednesday that the U.S. is in dire straits after Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's first press conference as president-elect.
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Having touched the sky, Montreal returned to Earth, which is to say that that was as good as it would get for the Expos; their dire straits after that scuttled season, and their subsequent choice not to offer Walker arbitration, put the free agent outfielder in Denver, where he slid on a Rockies jersey and immediately took to his new environment.
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Much has already been written about the influence of both Hendrix and Mark Knopfler on the guitar technique of many West African players (basically, in the 80s, cheap Dire Straits and Jimi tapes spread through the region, influencing pop and desert blues alike) but on Arbina, Seymali's husband, Jeiche Ould Chighaly, and his modified for Moorish scales guitar takes his influences, both contemporary and griot, further afield than ever before.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll GOP senator: Pelosi impeachment timeline intended to help Joe Biden Harris to cut some staff, redeploy others to Iowa in campaign shake-up MORE's (D-Calif.) once-promising campaign appears to be in dire straits as the candidate plans to redeploy staffers to Iowa and lay off some staff members at her Baltimore headquarters as she falters in her bid for the Democratic nomination.
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" And as the sun sets on one of the most iconic endings in Western cinematic history, you'll shake your head sadly, knowing that Casablanca could have been approximately 60 percent jollier if only the Dire Straits had been around: In the words of the now-immortal "Walk of Life": "After all the violence and double talk / There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife / You do the walk, yeah … you do the walk of life.
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They are: Bon Jovi Kate Bush The Cars Depeche Mode Dire Straits Eurythmics J. Geils Band Judas Priest LL Cool J MC5 The Meters Moody Blues Radiohead Rage Against the Machine Rufus featuring Chaka Khan Nina Simone Sister Rosetta Tharpe Link Wray The Zombies To be eligible for nomination, an individual artist or band must have released its first commercial recording at least 25 years prior to the year of induction which means the 143 nominees had to release their first official recording no later than 1992.
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I didn't know what newborn care was like, and as a chronic worrier, I assumed the worst-case scenario would come true: The baby would be in such dire straits that I could not keep our Monday and Thursday appointments; I would be so sleep-deprived and hormone-battered that I would be unable to make sound decisions about Lawrence's care; and the baby would suck up all my financial resources so that I could no longer afford to visit Lawrence or send him gifts.
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Even so, there were ample crosses on both entries before I got them; same for 3D, which was sadly apropos: "Not exactly hit the ground running" START OUT SLOWLY I did O.K. with 56D, although I never would have thought the song was from that long ago: "1978 Dire Straits hit" SULTANS OF SWING And I completely flailed at 7D, for some reason: "Showed 'em what we've got" STRUTTED OUR STUFF The last song title was new enough to me that I got it wrong until I looked up "Skilled judoist" (I had "dar" for that instead of DAN).
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