In many ways these are dreary, dreadfully boring alternatives to moon colonies and space travel.
He grips his bat like a lumberjack grasps his axe and looks dreadfully nervous.
Ms Seiffert's tone is dreadfully sober, but her writing is solid and carefully wrought.
Barclays' defence is that it was dreadfully unfair that its perceived borrowing costs were higher than other banks.
But the country remains dreadfully poor, with more than half the 75m Vietnamese still living below the poverty line.
Judge Lord Matthews said Pinkerton had abused his victims "dreadfully" and told him to expect a substantial number of years in jail for his crimes.
Ragpickers suffer from dreadfully high levels of illness, especially respiratory diseases.
At one point an increasingly desperate Robbie is passed by a motorcycle driven by two soldiers, one with useless arms the other with dreadfully wounded legs.
It had been a dreadfully dispiriting experience for England's bowlers - none more so than Graeme Swann, who, on a pitch taking slow spin, remained wicketless after 38 overs.
The current issue of Foreign Policy magazine features a cover article by former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara headlined: Apocalypse Soon: Why American Nukes Are Immoral, Illegal and Dreadfully Dangerous.
Henman started dreadfully by losing his second service game but despite losing the first set, the fact that he did claim two break points did give the crowd some hope.
It was not even the contrast between this grudging, halfhearted and dreadfully belated action and the resolute, unstinting and swift steps taken earlier at the president's direction to liberate Kuwait.
There's the young city worker, with his tie always at half-mast as if to emphasise how "dreadfully busy" he is, even though he's been standing on the platform for at least 15 minutes.
Complaining how dreadfully hard she has always found it to put words on paper, Ms Bedford looks back on the desultory years of false starts and failures, of self-confessed hedonism, sloth and doubt.
In the private sector, businesses sold off their products during Q4 but declined to replace those items, which while a drain on the economy, spared tens of thousands of auditors from dreadfully monotonous year-end inventory counts.
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Some migrant workers are filling jobs there, they're being dreadfully exploited, and that is reducing the opportunity for local labour to do the jobs for which they have the skills and I think we've got to tackle this problem.
Observers then wondered if Tory Party chairman Michael Ancram decided something had gone dreadfully wrong because it was just at this point that he announced things ought to come to a close as the luncheon hour was upon them.
They both went in a great hurry, and when they were gone the house seemed dreadfully quiet and empty, and the children wandered from one room to another and looked at the bits of paper and string on the floors left over from the packing, and not yet cleared up, and wished they had something to do.
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