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The straightest of strait-laced operators – who see search as a powerful and useful customer touchpoint, are tarnished with the same brush as the sketchiest of spammers and scammers who are still alive and well within the industry.

THE PANDA ANNIVERSARY AND WHAT WE DESPERATELY MUST REMEMBER ABOUT SEARCHKEVIN MULLANEYFEBRUARY 24, 2021SEARCH ENGINE WATCH

I don’t want to downplay the dire straits that our elementary school kids are facing, but I don’t think taking away resources from middle and high schools kids is the answer — at least not in the numbers they are asking.

PRINCIPALS CRITICAL OF D.C. SCHOOL SYSTEM’S PLAN TO REOPEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSPERRY STEINOCTOBER 28, 2020WASHINGTON POST

Still, with millions of Americans out of work and in increasingly desperate straits, some lawmakers are growing more vocal with their fears about the risks of not reaching an agreement quickly.

PELOSI WALKS TIGHTROPE IN STIMULUS TALKS AMID PRESSURES OF ELECTION, ECONOMYRACHAEL BADE, ERICA WERNEROCTOBER 15, 2020WASHINGTON POST

Prospect officials never disclosed the plan’s dire straits during the state approval process.

INVESTORS EXTRACTED $400 MILLION FROM A HOSPITAL CHAIN THAT SOMETIMES COULDN’T PAY FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES OR GAS FOR AMBULANCESBY PETER ELKIND WITH DORIS BURKESEPTEMBER 30, 2020PROPUBLICA

Whatever the cause, the havoc this week leaves some teams, like the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos, in pretty dire straits.

WHY OUR MODEL HATES THE LAKERSSARAH SHACHATSEPTEMBER 22, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT

When their car broke down on the trip, the couple was forced to face their financial straits.

PANDEMIC SCHEMES: HOW MULTILEVEL MARKETING DISTRIBUTORS ARE USING THE INTERNET—AND THE CORONAVIRUS—TO GROW THEIR BUSINESSESELIANA DOCKTERMANJULY 9, 2020TIME

The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.

THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS

Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait.

NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KING

Directions for the passage within the reefs through Torres Strait.

NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KING

And the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.

ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADE

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