10 47 p.m. | Updated Back on his old stomping grounds at the Senate on Wednesday afternoon, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. outlined dire consequences if Republicans blocked a $35 billion piece of President Obama's jobs bill.
"Medicaid Cut Places States in Budget Bind" (front page, June 8) outlined the dire consequences if Congress fails to approve a six-month extension of higher federal Medicaid assistance to states.
He also outlined a dire scenario in which a lame-duck president, a failing Iraq policy and an intensely political atmosphere might come together to mean that nobody will control the war.
A new report released by the Risky Business Project, a bipartisan initiative that has conducted a climate change risk assessment, outlines the dire risk Texas faces.
In a report to creditors in June, the city outlined its dire straits: Its population has declined 63% from its postwar peak, its general fund has run a deficit for the last five years, 40% of its streetlights don't work, and the understaffed Police Department has some of the slowest response times in the nation.
In the paper, former NASA climate expert James Hansen, who is widely credited with putting the climate issue itself on the map, collaborated with 16 other researchers to outline a pretty dire climate scenario.
International officials predict a dire effect if the measures outlined are fully carried out.
In the dry language of a technical committee, the draft outlines an increasingly dire situation.
While admitting things are pretty dire at the moment, he outlines some of the steps we can take as citizens and within organizations to bridge our differences and find common ground for future governance.
Citing the "dire need for reform" of housing benefit, Osborne outlined a package of measures that he said would reduce the bill by £1.8bn a year by the end of the parliament.
