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This is a modest concession to the oil and gas sector which has been lobbying hard ahead of the Budget, arguing it faces a grim future under the current regulation.

For his part, Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, who had looked and sounded grim over the weekend, said there were now "many prospects that can make the path to peace real".

Jeff Griffiths, a county supervisor in Inyo County who is also the president of the California Assn. of Counties, said he has been following the grim hospital financing news around the state with mounting worry.

Emergency operations experts say not enough has been done in their field to address the very grim possibility that evacuating may not always be possible — in part because it’s a hard reality to confront.

The discussion of her childhood is not all grim, however.