Sentences with phrase «dire financial straits»

But e-books are still a relatively small percentage of print book sales, and bookstores are in dire financial straits as it is.

Anyone who says the government is in such dire financial straits today that it must cut services and must fire employees does not understand economics and does not know history.

Ford is not in as dire financial straits as Chrysler and GM, but lobbied for the bailout to prevent a failure of the other two automakers from disrupting the industry.

What bothers me... is it's taking too long for everybody to recognize what kind of dire financial straits we're in.»

«A consultant at the Kaduna Business School concludes that the first point to note is that states are in dire financial straits today because of poor management of fiscal and other resources that occurred in the years preceding the report.

But in October 2011, Bharucha, then in his first semester as president, announced that the school was in dire financial straits after bad investments and expensive construction plans.

It receives about $ 500 million annually from the government and would likely enter dire financial straits if that money dried up.

and would likely enter dire financial straits if that money dried up.

Falling on dire financial straits because of her loss of income from the ballet, she faces expulsion from her paid - for apartment and the loss of medical insurance for her ill mother (played by the wonderful actress Joley Richardson).

Often, entrepreneurs end up putting themselves in dire financial straits by trying to fund their businesses out of pocket by using personal credit cards, leveraging their homes for a second mortgage, and selling off their possessions.

Hedging as a tool is extremely useful but at it's fundamental core should only be employed as a regular strategy when the stakes are too high that a bettor needs the funds to avoid dire financial straits.

Instead, they have exchanged a series of bizarre accusations, involving questionable EB - 5 deals, an alleged travel ban and supposedly dire financial straits.

MTA spokesman Sam Zambuto said the agency would have been in dire financial straits without the payroll tax last year even after enacting cost - saving service cuts.

The second is that, while the payment is insignificant for Imperial Tobacco (gross profit last year # 5.5 bn), it means rather more to the Lib Dems, who have been in dire financial straits ever since their chief donor absconded to the Dominican Republic to avoid a seven - year prison sentence.

Even under dire financial straits, Wren and her partner Sergei are reluctant to take on the Silence's job offer: go to Italy and retrieve a missing old parchment that happens to make any readers vanish.

The likelihood of one bank being in dire financial straits while the other five banks are not is remote — I think we can agree on that.

When you go through dire financial straits, and you've fallen behind on your monthly loan payments, you feel like there's nowhere to turn.

Now consider this for one moment, because it affects a lot of people who are in dire financial straits with insurmountable debt — your health and well - being are more important than any problems that you have with finance at the moment.

So unless you are navigating dire financial straits, you would be hard pressed to find an excuse for not contributing at least enough to receive the full match each month.

Blaming dire financial straits, the chair of the school's Board of Trustees, Richard S. Lincer, claimed that «tuition [was] the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future.»

The Crystal Ball Report also mentions that Iran may be able to sell 500,000 barrels per day once sanctions are fully lifted, and that «countries like Iraq, Venezuela and Nigeria are in such dire financial straits that they simply can not afford reductions and will be selling as much as possible.»

Ford, which has said it is not in as dire financial straits as the other two automakers, has pledged to speed up development of battery - powered vehicles.

It was no secret that Short was in dire financial straits after having transplanted the Rangers from Washington.

If the latter, it would seem that whoever hired the plane was not in dire financial straits.

People in the direst financial straits may be trying to swing a car payment that eats an entire paycheck, says Shirley Benning, a certified financial coach with Baltimore's Guidewell Financial Solutions.

One investor thinks so

By now, we've all heard about how avocado toast is somehow solely responsible for the dire financial straits of today's average...

It appears that the magic of the FA Cup does not extend as far as helping out a lower - league club in dire financial straits.

Norris and William Hall had taken over — more been lumbered with — a club in dire financial straits (Woolwich Arsenal FC went into liquidation in 1910), moved it to a new stadium (Highbury in 1913) to draw bigger crowds that would help them pay off its debts more quickly, and then World War One breaks out.

But it's also left many in dire financial straits, according to the study.

The MTA is in dire financial straits, facing budget shortfalls that won't be filled by planned fare hikes in 2019 and 2021.

Stephanie Miner — The Syracuse mayor took her fight against the governor mainstream, penning an op - ed in The New York Times this week that takes him to task for a budget proposal that she says does little to help municipalities in dire financial straits.

The dire financial straits facing the county are holding our economy hostage.

The Courant endorses state Sen. John W. Fonfara for re-election to his 1st Senate District seat with the hope that the Democrat will help get the city and state out of its dire financial straits.

Miner's city is in dire financial straits — so much so that she asked former LG Richard Ravitch to come in and lend a hand in hopes of righting the fiscal picture.

Yet the Tickners adapted quickly, adopting a suite of strategies to manage the increasingly hostile land and turn a profit, even as farmers around them were in dire financial straits.

The effects of DL 180 are even more onerous than the original law at institutions in the direst financial straits; those institutions will not be allowed to replace anyone.

Doubtless because of Philips's dire financial straits, the company is now cutting back and running single - page adverts in the same vein.

Other Europeans, too, face a steep bill for climate change relief, but dire financial straits are hampering their efforts (see «Europe in 2050: a survivor's guide to climate change «-RRB-.

Despite Atlus» parent company Index Holdings being in dire financial straits, the Japanese company's headquarters has stated that it's business as usual.

Determined to do a great job as maid of honor despite her dire financial straits, she's immediately undermined by Lillian's beautiful, wealthy bridesmaid Helen (Rose Byrne), who upstages Annie at the engagement party and declares that Lillian is her best friend, despite them knowing each other for less than a year.

As a direct result, the family is in dire financial straits.

In the fall of 2007, word quietly spread through the nation's capital that a dozen Catholic schools run by the Archdiocese of Washington were in dire financial straits.

Also, it is disingenuous to suggest that lavish salaries and pension spiking are the main or even a primary reason Illinois» teacher pension system is in dire financial straits.

It stayed that way until 2011, when the pension fund was in such dire financial straits that the legislature increased the minimum service requirements back to 10 years to reduce costs at the expense of teachers.

Now California, in fairness, is listed as a state with «mixed results», but why would the governor promote the growth of this sector in his state while the traditional public schools are in such dire financial straits were it not for the huge sums of money dangled before him?

The Chester - Upland School Districts is in such dire financial straits that administrators are worried about having enough cash on hand to make payroll and keep schools open through the rest of this school year.