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• Industry executives are also worried about what they see as the parlous state of the country's state finances. —  Reuters: Top News
• The President very belatedly ridiculed the well-worn excuses being spewed out over the past two decades for the parlous state of the industry − poor weather, strikes, labour shortages, etc − and the frequent visits of a senior official of the Booker-Tate London headquarters (formerly of the local hierarchy) seem not to have made any difference. —  Stabroek News
• Ludwig von Mises, whose 'Human Action' of 1949 reads like a road map to the parlous state we seem to be destined for: —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
• The size of the bonus - for only a year's extra service - reflects the parlous state of the RAAF's air traffic control group which has lost at least 14 controllers this year to Airservices Australia, the civilian air traffic control manager. —  Tanker Brothers
• Comments from Australia on the mostly parlous state of modern education by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph. D.) -- former High School and University teacher. —  EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL

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