Its average incomes are dismally low, and much of its air and water is heavily polluted.
In Durban, all efforts by the polite European friends of Yasser Arafat failed dismally.
Rim is one single small company that is dismally small compared to the world.
Recent data meanwhile show how dismally the world is failing to deal with the problem.
Promoting a reform expressly to reassure investors, then promptly backing away, was dismally bad politics.
Several days later, when the mission had failed, dismally, Mr Vance's resignation was made public.
Even in the Soviet period, such exotic-sounding drinks were a welcome exception amid dismally low standards.
Both of them have done dismally this year but brilliantly in the longer term.
Despite the dismally high unemployment rate in the country, the average open job only receives 4 resumes.
The result could be dismally cynical: each side using and attacking the other and growing ever more bitter.
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The generals, courtiers and bureaucrats who have been in charge for the past 15 months have ruled dismally.
Yet most Sudanese beyond the capital remain dismally poor, and the country's natural potential, especially in agriculture, remains hugely under-exploited.
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Consumer confidence, although still dismally low, improved slightly, to 53.5 in August from a five-month low of 51 in July.
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Pinterest usage was dismally low for more than a year (by the end of 2010, it has only 10, 000 users).
On November 9th the Conservatives picked up two seats in four by-elections, in all of which the Liberals performed dismally.
Once hailed as the saviour of German football, he was savaged when the team lost dismally against Italy last week.
Beyond that, the public health community, with a few exceptions, is far too complacent about today's dismally low quit rates.
But your chances of picking that manager in advance are dismally small.
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Rather than failing dismally to enforce morality government should stop subsidizing immorality.
He has dismally failed to build a proper democracy on his own patch, allowing corruption and gross patronage to flourish around him.
Mr Roh, a former labour lawyer, handled labour problems dismally during his first year, responding inconsistently to a series of crippling strikes.
Likewise, it is not clear why prescription drug ads perform so dismally.
The enduring theme is scratched brown plastic, dismally redolent of the 1970s.
Meanwhile researchers around the world are trying to answer a simple question: Why did Iressa fail so dismally in the two big trials?
The technology leaders of the 1990s, Microsoft, Intel and Cisco, have performed dismally as new leaders such as Apple and Google have emerged.
Talent wars on the startup-centric coasts have left tech-savvy employees in high-demand, yet the unemployment rate remains dismally high, even in those areas.
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Both the Chartered Management Institute and XpertHR should be ashamed of themselves for putting out a report which uses such a dismally silly methodology.
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Take a step back and we know very well that entirely planned societies like the Soviet Union failed dismally at providing what consumers actually wanted.
But computer monitors don't make great TV screens, networking won't be included in the first version's Christmas release and Microsoft's past TV-in-computers initiatives have failed dismally.
The sugar harvest, once the leading foreign-currency earner, is likely to be less than 4m tonnes (a dismally low figure), again according to the government itself.
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