He claims to have done his best to grapple with the state's dire budget woes.
The ruling camp has looked rudderless and ineffectual in tackling the country's dire economic woes, but the opposition demonstrations have unified support around the president.
LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The season is starting with dire reports of financial woes and administrative upheaval at this ensemble, which seemed only a few years ago to be on top of the world and a model for the future.
After much contemplation, I chose, despite hearing many tales of woe accompanied by dire warnings (e.g., low wages and burnout), to pursue a social work degree to better position myself to understand, serve and learn from causes and communities I hold near and dear to my heart.
Haiti's many man-made woes its dire poverty, political infighting and proclivity for insurrection have been exacerbated repeatedly by natural disasters.
Today, the psychosexual lens helps explain why North Korea, in addition to dire poverty and other crippling woes, faces international giggles over its inability to "get it up" — a popular turn of phrase among bloggers and some headline writers.
Japan's economic woes, for example, have dire implications here because big Japanese banks are pulling credit lines to small and midsize businesses.
Britain's airport operators will issue a plea for help to the government this week, revealing the extent of the industry's financial woes and issuing a dire set of predictions for the rest of the year.
In a state where the budget woes have, by some estimates, grown more dire than even those in California, it seems that months of inaction might at last be overtaken by some combination of timing (elections are far away) and fear (the state's national reputation and bond ratings seem to be sinking as fast as its debts are mounting).
Young scientists have been getting older for years, but the situation is even more dire today as a result of NIH's budget woes, Landis says.
