Family farmers spend their waking hours solving the inevitable crises of the moment: capturing an enterprising pig that got through fencing and chomped on a neighbors' crops, or something more dire, like a storm on the horizon at the very moment wheat is being cut.
A soggy lump including a shirt, shoes and a baggy pair of True Religion jeans lends an ominous air, but there is no evidence of anything more dire than a wardrobe malfunction.
The relationship I had with alcohol saw plenty of wild, fun times, but at least as many spills – some significantly more dire than a splashed cabernet on carpet, though that, alas, happened far too often.
But before we credit the broad symptoms (possibly made more dire for a lack of local services) to one toxin or another, we'll have to await results from the labs.
What can't be argued, is that New Birth's financial straits only become more dire if/when a settlement is reached and the total legal fees are tabulated.
And if it's true that China is hedging its bet against the West on Russian success, and therefore growth, then America's problems might indeed be more dire than a pending American intervention that may or may not happen in Syria.
"Any delay puts us in a more dire situation," Deborah Bathke, a climatologist at the University of Nebraska's National Drought Mitigation Center, told HuffPost.
Nothing was more dire than an 18-point deficit just before the half.
However, I hope the majority of resources are given to the countries in Africa where the problem is palpable and more dire in an area of the world that we routinely ignore.
What may have started as a breach on your social chat platform -- where no personal information is stored -- may turn into a situation with more dire consequences -- a hacker getting into your personal photos, your bank account, and your medical information after trying your recycled password to access a site where valuable personal information is stored.
