This was yet another dismally extraordinary fact of our dismally extraordinary times, but one for which you may be forgiven having forgotten not even six months later.
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Democracy had failed dismally in Africa during the cold war.
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It's also dismally unrepresentative of the disabled community as a whole.
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That is a terrible harbinger for America's broader, dismally partisan politics.
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The pattern is dismally familiar in the annals of authoritarian governments.
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Their hired hand, Rachel Mitchell, an Arizona prosecutor, was dismally ineffective.
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On this measure, the countries of the world have failed dismally.
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She performed dismally when pressed by clever interviewers such as Andrew Neil.
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The country ranks dismally low on world rankings for access to healthcare.
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The Economist: Around the world, public trust in politicians is dismally low.
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But matters have not played out as dismally as they might have.
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Mr Corbyn was a dismally poor cheerleader for Britain's continued EU membership.
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As a philosophical label, socialism fares dismally alongside capitalism in public sentiment.
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It quickly transformed my outlook from dismally damp to warm and welcoming.
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Desperately did I try to fascinate that night; dismally did I fail.
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Funding has fallen short and anti-malarial programmes are sometimes dismally inefficient.
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Still, the number of women who actually take the stage remains dismally small.
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Now the US rates as dismally as China, and just barely above Russia.
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It's infuriating, it's frustrating, and it's — rather dismally — all too common during heterosexual sex.
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It's an occasionally terrifying blend of incredibly heightened sensations and a dismally blank dullness.
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But he performed dismally practically everywhere else in the first six weeks of voting.
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Castro had hoped this would spark an uprising around Cuba, but it failed dismally.
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Experts rated American democracy dismally on designing unbiased districts, fostering political participation, and creating compromise.
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Cases of technical revocations—dubbed "churn" or "back door entry to prison"—are dismally common.
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As Janet, Foy takes a character that could have been dismally flat and works wonders.
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I've tried whole wheat bread before and failed dismally, so I'm trying a new recipe.
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It's how dismally the Paris decision polls among independents that should really concern the president.
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The state also scored dismally on election laws, after court battles over voter identification rules.
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President Bush left office with a dismally low 24 percent approval rating, according to Pew.
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Meanwhile, the survey found that Trump polls dismally among women — and young women in particular.
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Gabbard's withdrawal comes after dismally low finishes in every primary and caucus held thus far.
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A justice system that deals swiftly and ruthlessly with dissidents fails dismally at enforcing quotidian regulation.
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More dismally, the country ranked 25th in mean mobile upload speeds, falling 25 spots from 2018.
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Yet, in reality, productivity gains over the past decade have been, by historical standards, dismally low.
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"Intra-African trade is still at a dismally low percentage," Nhleko of MTN said in Davos.
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But this is Malaysia—a country plagued by political corruption, where press freedom remains dismally low.
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But that effort failed dismally, when both Republicans and Democrats called it out as a sham.
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Fourth, the GOP attempt to govern America like a one-party Republican state has failed dismally.
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The S&P500 fell by almost 2% on May 17th as investors mulled that dismally familiar prospect.
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And that's coming from someone who really would like to be monogamous — even though I've failed dismally.
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As a Republican, Guadagno likely faced more headwinds because of Christie's dismally low approval rating, Murray added.
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The recipes for good governance and anticorruption strategies have long been known, but enforcement has dismally failed.
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Her exit from the race follows weeks of dismally low finishes in primary contests across the country.
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It is clear that, taken as a whole, our region has failed dismally in meeting these goals.
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Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who wrote a book criticizing Trump this year, is performing dismally in primary polls.
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But the greatest safety practice is in preventing or lessening potential confrontation, which is where United dismally failed.
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This was the worst outbreak of violence in Kashmir for six years, and yet it was dismally predictable.
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If that sounds familiar, it's because it's the same formula that so dismally failed in Iraq and Libya.
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As a Republican, Guadagno has likely faced more headwinds because of Christie's dismally low approval rating, Murray added.
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It also polls dismally, even as Obamacare has finally become modestly popular legislation now that it's under scrutiny.
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Australians are up in arms after a report was published showing the country doing dismally in global education rankings.
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It is intended to prevent rich parties from buying the support of poorer ones but it is dismally ineffective.
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Ciudadanos (Citizens) won the most votes, but other unionist forces — Rajoy's People's Party and the Socialist Party — performed dismally.
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State Republicans were so dismally organized that the runoff for an open U.S. Senate seat featured two Democratic candidates.
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Because of that, the racist undertones (and explicit themes) present in parts of the porn industry are dismally inevitable.
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And so what should have been a historic moment for the long-suffering nation took a dismally familiar turn.
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Despite "Joker's" strong results, there have been recent high-profile failures, including a "Hellboy" revival that fell dismally flat.
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Mobility challenges are one of the typical reasons employers cite to explain the dismally low numbers of employees with disabilities.
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Since Congress's approval ratings are dismally low and even worse than Trump's, America seems more than ready for the change.
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And here, I was surprised to find Malaysian modern artist Redza Piyadasa's "May 13, 1969" dismally lit in a corner.
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He explained that the West was doomed to irrelevance by its addiction to market fundamentalism which contrasted dismally with Russia's realism.
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Why is it that airlines on this side of the Atlantic fall so consistently, dismally, behind their Asian and European counterparts?
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And it's hard for me to imagine that turnout won't be dismally low in all four states set to vote tomorrow.
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When voters demur, evidently their strategy is retain power by fixing the system: a terrible harbinger for America's broader, dismally partisan politics.
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I was an actual Catholic schoolgirl at the age of sixteen, and it was so dismally far from the music video fantasy.
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If final ratings come in dismally, it may persuade the pugilistic-powers-that-be to continue running the sport into the ground.
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The tablets are cheap, and as such mark a rare bright spot in a category that's been performing pretty dismally in recent years.
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It makes Saudi Arabia a bit less dismally exceptional; no other country bans women drivers, unless you count the non-country, Islamic State.
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After the dismally low voter turnout of the 2016 presidential election, she wanted to do something to get people involved with the midterms.
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Released in 20133, two years after Bening and Beatty married, the film did dismally at the box office and is little remembered today.
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Trump still performs dismally among African-Americans, with only 2628 percent saying they support the presumptive Republican nominee, while 28503 percent support Clinton.
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Trump's approval rating is dismally low, ranging from the high-85033s in the CNN poll to the low-40s in the Reuters poll.
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Purportedly a comedy, this sophomore feature from the playwright Theresa Rebeck is so dismally unfunny that the descriptor should come with quotation marks.
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Ms. Le Pen's party, crushed by Emmanuel Macron's 803 percent in the presidential runoff in May, fared dismally in last Sunday's legislative elections.
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Banks performed dismally last year, and their 2016 first-quarter-earnings reports show that this one is off to an even worse start.
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" Still, Ms. Buttu said the president's "rule has been dismally marked by deflecting blame onto others, consolidating powers unto himself and destroying Palestinian institutions.
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No wonder he goes into his presidency with the lowest approval numbers in modern history and why they dismally compare to his recent predecessors.
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A series of recent polls show Donald Trump performing dismally among Catholic voters, who are the biggest single religious contingent in the American electorate.
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Editorial Revelations of corruption in international sports have become dismally common — in the Olympic Games, in cycling, in soccer and now in track and field.
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Mrs von der Leyen has not shown much of a knack for that in her attempts to overhaul Germany's dismally run and curmudgeonly armed forces.
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President Obama won commanding victories here in 2008 and 2012; Mr. Trump's popularity hangs dismally somewhere between lake-effect snow and ketchup on hot dogs.
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India's wealthy few have servants to take their place in the still dismally long queues snaking outside banks, but the pain reaches even to the top.
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What Cannon dismally fails to understand is the mission of Planned Parenthood, from its founding in 1916 to today: To care for and empower American women.
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Governments also back it fiercely: David Cameron, Britain's former prime minister, dismally failed to secure an exemption for Britain from freedom of movement earlier this year.
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But maybe — just maybe, after more than four decades of trying and failing dismally — La Canopée can provide something else at central Paris's most abused site.
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"Our media ownership numbers are already dismally low," said Carmen Scurato, the director for the National Hispanic Media Coalition, a nonprofit that promotes greater diversity in media.
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Over the past few years the government has performed so dismally on law and order that it has ceded the initiative to, of all people, Jeremy Corbyn.
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Plunging into undesirably uncharted territory, Trump is setting records with his dismally low approval ratings, including the lowest mark ever for a president in his first year.
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His best hope of a quick return to power lies in the crisis of 5-Star, which performed dismally on Sunday after its leader resigned last week.
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Because Democrats have lately performed absolutely dismally in midterm elections and in the states, and a national move left may well hurt them even more in those contests.
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All diets — Zone, Atkins, Ornish — seem to perform equally dismally in the long run, only inducing a few pounds of weight loss for most people after a year.
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The judge ruled that the police and the government had "dismally failed to comply with the applicable requirements of the Immigration Act" and Ejimkonye had been unlawfully detained.
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At the moment, the economy's physical limits to growth, set by the available stock and quality of human and (physical) capital, are at a dismally low 1.6 percent.
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President Donald Trump is acting like Homer Simpson at the NATO summit, trying not to cause disaster but failing dismally, the UK&aposs most feared journalist has said.
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The attempts in last year's election campaign to create a personality cult out of Theresa May, Britain's prime minister, failed dismally because she is a shy and reserved person.
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Policymakers are dismally failing to adequately incorporate private capital into green initiatives, according to a white paper released by UBS in conjunction with the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos.
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It was a show of remarkable political resilience from Biden, who performed dismally in the first two contests, in Iowa and New Hampshire, and indifferently in the third, in Nevada.
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But avoiding WWIII is a dismally low bar to pass, and the fact that the killing didn't spark a wider conflict is a poor measure of the wisdom of the operation.
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That was a slight improvement (1%) on 2016's record, but it's still a dismally low number given that women make up just over half of the population of the United States.
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Prime Minister Theresa May had become dismally unpopular, and when a conservative website asked party members who should be the Conservatives' next leader, Mr. Rees-Mogg got more votes than anyone else.
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Finding help was especially challenging in rural North Dakota, where a dismally small number of mental health specialists and treatment centers exacerbate the lack of education and awareness about fetal alcohol syndrome.
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The economy is performing dismally and the rand has plunged, partly thanks to the undeclared war between Mr Zuma and his finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, who seeks to keep public expenditure under control.
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Despite India's prolonged economic expansion, the percentage of women in the work force remains dismally low — lower than in any country in the G-20 other than Saudi Arabia — and it is dropping.
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They are like endless Pixar movies filled to overflowing with moments of wonder and wild imagination (I'm still trying to get my head around the toaster oven in Splatoon 2 and failing dismally).
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Martin O'Malley (D) To no-one's great surprise, O'Malley performed dismally, in part because he had too few supporters to achieve "viability" in many places under the rules of the Democratic caucus system.
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Other new releases included Robert Zemeckis's "Welcome to Marwen" (Universal), a dismally reviewed comedic drama starring Steve Carell as an artist who copes with trauma by creating an imaginary world populated by dolls.
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Image: KickstarterCrowdfunding platform Kickstarter has been the springboard for countless original products over the years, but an apparent attempt by the company's management to bust up an ongoing union drive is dismally old-fashioned.
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But at the moment, it's Republicans who are subject to political pressures, from angry Democrats confronting them at town hall meetings to President Trump's dismally low approval rating and a stagnant agenda on Capitol Hill.
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By 2000, it wants full fiber broadband coverage to reach across all of the UK. Currently the UK only has 22020% full fiber connections, which compares dismally to 23% in Spain and 89% in Portugal.
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If anything he seems to be making it tougher to invest in a country that already scores dismally on the World Bank's ease of doing business index, where it is ranked 139th out of 189.
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Perhaps Left Alive will be the mecha version of Adam Curtis' Hypernormalisation, and try to say something about this general state of affairs, but it seems more likely to only show us something dismally familiar.
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"Would the president allow the vice president to succeed in his centrepiece program of an anti-drugs war while he himself dismally failed," opposition congressman Edcel Lagman said in an interview with ANC news channel.
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That announcement, at the United Nations in New York, acknowledged the chronic weakness of the unity government, which has dismally failed to assert its authority beyond Tripoli, yet retains the backing of the international community.
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However, Trump's approval ratings remain dismally low, sitting at a 45 percent approval rating this week, after hitting an all-time low of 41 percent at the height of the Russia-related scandals two weeks ago.
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Debate about the EU's long-term budget, which must be agreed on in the next 18 months or so, remains dismally short of strategic thinking about what issues the EU should be prioritising in the 2020s.
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She has never held elected office, and her presidential campaign ended dismally — despite a brief poll surge last fall, she ended up finishing in seventh place in both Iowa and New Hampshire before quitting the race.
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As enjoyable as a good hit of burning tobacco can be, not all of us planned our entire evening around watching you roll the most dismally dog-eared ciggies this side of the Titanic's engine room.
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Karen Handel didn't argue that the Republican Party's health care bill is a good idea (it's very unpopular) or that tax cuts for millionaires should be the country's top economic priority (another policy that polls dismally).
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He will thus end his presidency with a dismally lopsided legacy on immigration: one program protecting 730,000 young people that has been left stranded by the failure of immigration reform, balanced against a record 2.4 million deportations.
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Wide variation in screening guidelines and dismally low pediatric lead screening rates at the state and national level likely mask the true distribution of lead toxicity in the U.S. that is actually happening at the community level.
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The book reads almost like a Tolstoy novel, introducing a cast of Russian characters — descendants of opposition leaders; philosophers and social scientists — and following them through and beyond perestroika, chronicling, dismally, their loss of hope for freedom in Russia.
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Economists agree that one of the major reasons for Britian's dismally low productivity is that it has too few big cities: London sucks investment and talent away from regional hubs that might one day develop into conurbations of its size.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor posted its smallest quarterly net profit in five years, falling dismally short of estimates, and warned the second half of 2017 would be challenging as political headwinds hit sales in China and slow U.S. demand continues.
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A top aide to Ms. Pelosi dismissed the idea that her lightning-rod status might have hurt the Democratic effort in Georgia, and pointed out that in some polls the Republican speaker, Paul D. Ryan, is viewed even more dismally.
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His campaign has failed dismally to attract African-American voters—according to one recent poll, his support among black Democrats in South Carolina is at less than one per cent—so I asked him what themes helped him make a connection with them.
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Just two days after the nation memorialized the deaths of thousands of Americans who died in 9/11, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to deny the deaths of thousands of Americans who died due to Hurricane Maria, and the dismally slow government aid response.
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Grahame-Smith is also responsible for 2010's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which was turned into a (rather dismally reviewed) action movie; thankfully, in the hands of screenwriter/director Burr Steers, P&P&Z sidesteps the serious treatment in favor of plenty of winking camp.
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The Tax Cuts and Job Act was passed in a rushed, secretive, rather slapdash process involving no bipartisan outreach and polled dismally; is expected to increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion; and does not meaningfully simplify the tax code as Republicans had long promised.
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Having each performed dismally in the Iowa caucuses a week earlier (Bush finished sixth, Kasich eighth and Christie 10th), the three governors are seeking a reset in a state that is more ideologically broad-minded than Iowa but also more inclined to play hard-to-get.
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Where some developers put music in their game because it increases the artistic quality of the product, others simply use it to promote their title, which is why Jason Derulo was dismally employed to introduce Just Dance 3 to consumers at last year's international gaming conference, E3.
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The army looks likely to let the civilian government make the running in what one Burmese insider describes as a carefully fenced-off "sandbox": matters of development, education, health care and the like—precisely the areas that for years it oversaw so dismally in this poverty-stricken country.
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What we're reading: This Harvard Business Review article about two new mothers returning to work in Sweden and the U.S. "Reading the two stories side by side shows just how dismally work-family policies in the U.S. measure up," says Francesca Donner, the director of our Gender Initiative.
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Such is the dismally low bar the outside world has blindly set on how to assess the ultra-weird North Korean regime, even the most mundane acts like meeting with foreign leaders, visiting China, or going to a concert will be interpreted as signs of desire for denuclearization, reform and opening.
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The spending — directed by Kim Jong-il, then the country's leader in waiting — would leave North Korea even more dismally prepared for the coming collapse of Soviet Communism, which deprived it of economic aid and trading partners, and for a string of droughts and floods that wiped out its agriculture.
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In fact, not a day after the May House vote on the dismally-unpopular healthcare plan that will strip 2628 million Americans of healthcare coverage, the Cook Political Report changed the ratings of 28500 of those members who had voted for the GOP plan, moving those ratings in favor of the Democrats.
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But many of the elements that played out after the shooting here — the formal news conferences with the mayor, the governor, the police chief, the district attorney; the pleas for calm; the promises of a fair, impartial and transparent investigation, often by an outside agency — seem to have come from a dismally familiar playbook.
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Moss arrived in New York at 22, in 1993, "the beginning of the end," as he tells it in "Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul," his comprehensive, emotional exploration of the historical, economic and social forces that have permitted and in many cases encouraged things to play out so dismally.
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And instead of trying to fix these shameful realities, the South Carolina General Assembly — which ranks dismally low among state legislative bodies in terms of women's representation — and other elected officials in S.C. continue to focus its energy on passing policies like abortion bans and Medicaid work requirements that disproportionately harm women, people of color, and poor people.
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Editorial What is unnerving in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's march to authoritarianism is how dismally familiar it is: the coup that becomes a pretext for a massive roundup of real and imagined enemies; the claims to be the one man who can withstand the onslaught of foreign foes; the invocation of purported historical slights; the silencing of the news media.
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New York (CNN Business)When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to nominate even one person of color for an Oscar for the second year in a row in January 22019, Hollywood insiders and reform advocates pointed to dismally-low demographic figures to argue the annual awards show's lack of diversity was a reflection of an industry-wide problem.
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