For Black Hat's audience of hackers, the tactics for pulling sensitive data were almost disappointingly easy.
The building of a reprocessing plant at Rokkashomura, in Aomori prefecture, has been disappointingly slow.
While Japan muddles along disappointingly, the rate of decline of Asia's smaller economies continues to exceed expectations.
That run ended in Afghanistan and Iraq missions that have involved elusive opponents, changing rationales and disappointingly uncertain outcomes.
His proposal for an underclass of immigrant workers, who would not participate in Social Security, is disappointingly lacking.
You may gawp or flinch, but your pulse, like that of Dr. Lecter himself, will stay disappointingly slow.
"Consumer spending remained disappointingly weak in December, " said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, which compiled the index.
Financial contagion from Europe could quickly turn conditions in China and America from disappointingly soft to dangerously recessionary.
Even if a new round of protectionism can be avoided, ambitions to liberalise trade further are disappointingly limited.
Disappointingly, public security is not a big issue in next month's presidential election.
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Perhaps most disappointingly, the vast collection of included ear tips are all circular.
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In recent years, though, there has been disappointingly little research on how monetary policy should respond to asset-price inflation.
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The author's ideas for revamping both economics and economic policy are disappointingly undeveloped.
Even though we lost rather disappointingly in the doubles, it was a pretty cool experience to play in the match.
But in reality India's benefits from cooperation with the junta have been disappointingly small on both the economic and security fronts.
Anderson has always been disappointingly inconsistent and does not have the steely confidence that gets Stuart Broad through a difficult contest.
Disappointingly for Mr Brown, by the end of the week he seemed further away from his ambition than at the start.
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Though I angered some investors in my analysis, disappointingly, I think I was somewhat reserved in my appraisal of the situation.
It was a disappointingly flat end to a otherwise thoroughly exciting series, from which both sides will take plenty of positives.
But results of federally-funded social programs which require individualized attention such as Head Start and job retraining have been disappointingly mediocre.
Disappointingly, the Amphones feel as passable as the AmPlug -- make no mistake, the cans are about as utilitarian as they come.
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To foster some Islamic credentials of his own, perhaps, the president has seemed disappointingly slow to stand up for greater religious tolerance.
Aaron Lennon seized on the rebound but sliced his effort disappointingly wide.
His childhood habit of washing his own clothes continued, but the results from fabric whiteners were disappointingly the same: patchy and blueish.
The speakerphone built into the device has a disappointingly slight maximum output.
Disappointingly, inventories grew by 0.1%, which dashes hopes that the slowdown in economic growth was only a temporary consequence of destocking by businesses.
After a deep recession, the U.S. economy has been growing since the middle of last year, but its growth has been disappointingly slow.
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Perhaps the summiteers will bask in the headlines and then, out of the glare of the television lights, set about something disappointingly modest.
Despite the heft, the PlayUp's battery is rated for 10 hours of use, which is disappointingly just under half of the 360's replaceable cell.
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Over the past five years disappointingly few European leaders have spoken as forthrightly as Mr Cheney did indeed, nor has Mr Cheney's boss, George Bush.
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