When your largest employer is tax exempt, its growth can make for a mixed fortune, a predicament that was mitigated with passage of the state's payment in lieu of taxes program in 1978.
The comic strip having taken over the comic presentation of events almost completely, especially since the rise of the one-line joke or picture caption, the modern cartoon became one largely of situation or of predicament that was stated without a solution's being worked out or suggested.
More unemployment means more state spending and less tax revenue, a predicament that is compounded by the economic slowdown in Europe.
It is a predicament that is unusual for a journalist, but it has been complicated in the thirty-four-year-old Varadarajan's case by his sudden status as one of the city's most in-demand bachelors.
Do I a) move the mugs and risk losing a wicket by changing or b) move them because I shouldn't risk not having everything on the right side of the screen?" What a predicament that is.
Individual investment vehicles may have sustained huge losses, especially if they borrowed heavily: it is the fear that your counterparty might be in that predicament that is gumming up the markets.In theory the damage is safely contained off banks' balance sheets.
The urge to be "doing, not dangling" is understandable, but the job of the heir to the throne is precisely to dangle, a predicament that is cubed in the case of an heir's heir's heir.The queen never had to endure this public torment.
And this is why his novels, stories and articles so often defied closure and grew and grew and grew, sprouting tendrils and digressions and asides — because in almost everything Wallace wrote, including "The Pale King," he aimed to use words to lasso and somehow subdue the staggering, multifarious, cacophonous predicament that is modern American life.
Mr. Hartnett is suited to comedy, using that fixed expression of his for laughs; he seems to peer off into the distance at an unbelievable situation and his tiny eyes pop wide open when he realizes that it is his predicament that is coming into focus.
There has also been a certain amount of uncertainty for players recently with the continued financial predicament that is currently affecting several football clubs.
That's the tragic predicament that's befallen Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann in "The Other Woman".
