51.   For top-tier political players, betting on the wrong horse can have dire consequences, especially if the winner carries a grudge.

52.   For traditional record stores that have counted mainly on music to ring up the profits, chasing after the big stores with price cuts can have dire consequences.

53.   Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, who had his own private talks Wednesday with Dole, said such a withdrawal would have dire consequences for the Bosnian people.

54.   Greenspan described dire consequences if banks did not start taking risk into account in loan pricing.

55.   He warned there would be dire consequences for companies that flaunted his demand.

56.   He is predicting dire consequences.

57.   He would make more bad choices, this time away from the basketball court and with more dire consequences.

58.   His abilities to frighten the weak and gullible can be riotously funny, but his mischief has dire consequences.

59.   I am afraid that once again a lack of strategic thinking could have dire strategic consequences.

60.   I have stacks of mail and e-mails from people from around the nation predicting dire consequences if either Bush or Gore wins.