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The prognosis for Schwartz, a 22-year-old forward, has turned dire over the past 18 months.

Despite a few encouraging finds (e.g., Brazil sub-salt), trends in E&P look dire over the past decade A great presentation by Steven Kopits at Douglas-Westwood is floating around the web on this topic.

But what her latest research shows is that some of the consequences have been so dire over the longer term that politicians elsewhere, including Britain, should think carefully before following the US approach.

But the situation in the Caymans is indeed dire: over the last four years, its debt has doubled to $600 million as previous governments embarked on a series of expensive education projects.

With its heavy exposure to both mobile handsets and semiconductors, two business sectors that suffered dire downturns over the last year, Motorola's earnings news has been anything but good over the last few quarters).

Bear Stearns on Thursday painted a dire picture over the coming months.

(Tuesday) The heavy-metal rocker (and reality TV patriarch) Ozzy Osbourne still projects a weird menace onstage with convincingly dire pronouncements over Black Sabbath's guitar sludge.

An array of social welfare programs have lifted millions of Brazilians from dire poverty over the last decade, but salaries for many public employees, including police officers and schoolteachers, remain relatively low.

But on Sunday, Mr. Sadr's veiled threats to stir public disorder erupted into carefully orchestrated violence, with potentially dire implications over the long term for the Americans, and for Iraq.

Practical advice on etiquette, and cheer-leading jollity from Boris Johnson ("you are going to be the face of London"), is mixed with dire warnings over speaking to the press without approval or compromising the "integrity" of proceedings on social networks.

"The UK jobs market has been in dire straits over the last few weeks," he said.