The phrase "dire business" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation or matter that is very serious, urgent, or grave. Example: The company's financial losses were a dire business, requiring immediate action to avoid bankruptcy.
Economists tend to believe the UK's dire business investment story is temporary.
Its report followed a series of dire business surveys including one showing the economy shrinking at its fastest pace since 2009.
The two men recently grappled with a dire business challenge, the oil spill that temporarily halted all sailing in San Francisco Bay and closed their marina for 10 days.
So doing this in the first few months should be reserved for dire business situations, for employees in critical roles who clearly cannot do the work, or for truly toxic personalities that are undermining the enterprise.
But more skeptical insiders say that the bigger and more optimistic story about a pivot also belies some of the dire business problems that the company has had.
"On call" time will be classified as work only if the employee actually does something.One clear signal that the proposals are less dire than business leaders are portraying them to be is the reaction of union leaders.
Page A20 Business DIRE WARNINGS ARE BUILDING ON EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS European leaders face mounting pressure to overcome divisions and move ahead quickly with new plans to prevent the euro currency region from fracturing, as warnings multiply that the crisis could endanger the global economy and cause credit to dry up in the banking system.
Samsung had a pretty dire last quarter of business as profits dropped by 30percentthanksks primarily to the recall of the Galaxy Note 7. There's some New Year cheer, however, with news that the Korean firm is forecasting profit for its current Q4 2016 quarter to jump by 50percentt year-on-year.
Companies big and small are being starved of bank credit, and this is having dire consequences for businesses and the economy in general.
They're just victims of the music businesses' dire straits.
These deeper learning ideas can be reasonably implemented without resorting to the more dire actions struggling businesses take, like closing operations, cutting headcount or reducing salaries.
