This is slowing, among other things, the already deplorably tardy spending of European Union money.

ECONOMIST: Bulgaria tackles corruption

And they want the government - including the political class - to demonstrate that it is serious about combating corruption, without making it a deplorably partisan issue.

BBC: India's activists on warpath against the government

The worldwide standing of those institutions is deplorably low.

ECONOMIST: Liberalism lives | The

Until they started to play hardball in this way, Mr Obama had been deplorably insouciant about the medium-term picture, repeatedly failing in his budgets and his state-of-the-union speeches to offer any path to a sustainable deficit.

ECONOMIST: America's debt

Under a practice deplorably begun during the George W. Bush administration, Team Obama relies on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to determine who should receive that status and be allowed asylum in this country.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: No Christmas future for the Middle East?

CRASS, amateurish and deplorably nationalistic.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Just as the Bush Administration has been seen as favoring communist central authorities in Moscow over Baltic independence -- and hence has lagged deplorably behind most Western nations in extending recognition -- the U.S. government has steadfastly declined to cross the communist central authorities in Belgrade by actively supporting democratic governments in Croatia and Slovenia.

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