Things are a little less rosy around its non-iOS departments, but we'd hardly say the company was in dire straights.

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In developing countries, the collections of many museums are in dire straights, with often no access to the network of resources and expertise, which exists in other countries.

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And it is to ask the question whether the global financial system, and the economies of developed countries like Britain, would be in such dire straights if banks had been subject to a simple leverage ceiling, limiting how much banks could lend in total, irrespective of the nature of their loans, as a multiple of their capital.

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