With help from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, David Leonhardt discovered some good news: The current economic climate isn't close to being as dire as that of the early 1980s, when more people were unemployed.
Now the United States had a major recession, but has substantially recovered, and it was never close to being as dire as the 1930s.
DENVER — On Dec. 13, a group of staff members from The Rocky Mountain News gathered at the downtown Denver Press Club and agreed that they would no longer stand idle as their beloved paper careened closer and closer to a dire fate.
The company attributes its closing to the dire economic situation, and says that users will be able to access and download their data through April 30 , 2009
Each day we get closer to the dire predictions that will be brought on by the impending sequestration cuts, I -- and many other Americans -- become more and more incredulous.
In the letter, which has been sent to Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary and minister overseeing the celebrations, and to the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, Gove at one point comes close to suggesting that Britain's dire economic climate means that a large-scale celebration is required to lift the country's spirits.
Not only do enterprise companies hold large quantities of PII, they also possess intellectual property and proprietary information that they must keep close to the vest or face dire and potentially company-ending consequences.
Doctors who successfully implanted the first fully self-contained artificial heart in a human provided the first sparse details about its recipient Wednesday, describing a man in his mid- to late-50s, in "dire" condition, close to death from heart disease, diabetes and chronic kidney failure.
Money flowed in for the benefit of the haves, while many who live close to the fields "live in dire poverty".
A steady stream of volunteers seem aware that if they bring out the Tory vote – 34 percent in 2010 – that could be enough to see off the SNP surge fed by a massive swing away from Moore, and a dire Labour vote close to 2 percent, the lowest in Scotland.
