While hardly in the same dire straights as Sprint, the past few years have challenged Softbank.

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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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