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Portugal's power firm REN gave a more dire prediction, saying that it could "take up to a week" before the network was back to normal.

"Especially with some of those citizens being the most vulnerable of all vulnerable, children, and not just any children, children with medical conditions that are dire."

“The state of the world is just so dire,” said Zeltzer, a critical theory and social justice major.

Colossal dismisses the professional questioning over whether it truly has resurrected the dire wolf from extinction as a distraction from its scientific goals and achievement.

The state’s financial outlook is dire enough that it could swing from earlier projections of a relatively neutral budget to a staggering deficit in the year ahead.