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Michigan, its fate yoked to that of carmakers, must observe its own dismal calendar.

It was the least I could do for this perfect stranger, who had brought me out of a dismal time with a mere flash of a smile.

Japanese stocks are back in vogue, at least for now, despite lingering worries over dismal economic prospects and the strong yen.

Those that did not lay off any lawyers have frozen hiring and squeezed more work out of their staff. So morale is dismal at many firms.

As Mr Diamond arrived at the slopes, back in London Mervyn King was spelling out some dismal economic truths.

She listened to its dismal threnody , tapping her teeth with her red pencil and watching rivulets snaking down the windowpanes.

"Consumers' financial situations remain dismal as the majority reported that their finances continued to worsen, " Curtin said.

Who could have thought that such a pretty rose could grow in a porter's lodge, or bloom in that dismal old flower-pot of a Shepherd's Inn?

Celia, despite the dismal surroundings, had a sense of sharing in a moment to be remembered.

I suppose it seems to you a kind of curse. It must be very dismal.

The company's most recent quarterly earnings report was dismal, and many in the industry are anxious to see positive results.

Of course, that is well at least half a year from now, and in the mean time BYD is likely to continue to report dismal business results.

Even after being out for over a year the list of apps available for the E61 was pretty dismal.

Headhunting (contrary to its slimy reputation) struck me as being just as worthwhile as teaching or nursing but without the dismal salary.

Even a pick-up in mergers and acquisitions was not enough to entice investors to get back into the market because of the dismal signs.

After a couple dismal years of sales due to a global recession, manufacturers are exhibiting a renewed sense of creativity.

It had looked as though 2008 would be a dismal year for the prime minister.

Just at this point he met his soul's sworn comrade, Joe Harper -- hard-eyed , and with evidently a great and dismal purpose in his heart.

I got up out of my cabin, and looked out; but such a dismal sight I never saw.

Goldman insiders are likely to view the suit as an opportunistic attempt to cash in on the bank's dismal public image.

I heard it approach the door and pass out without moving bolt or lock. It wandered away among the dismal corridors, straining the floors.

You said that all science fiction - no matter how dismal - was optimistic in that it assumed that there would be a future at all.

The House's initial bailout rejection and a week of dismal economic news reinforced demand concerns.

In nearly 200 years of recorded stock-market history, no calendar decade has seen such a dismal performance as the 2000s.

IT HAS been a thoroughly wretched summer in the rich world: weak growth, dismal jobs numbers and plunges in stockmarkets.

Maybe; yet to me lugging a bag up and down the stairs of dismal council flats still didn't seem like a recipe for happiness.

After almost three years of President Obama's leadership, the economy is still dismal and Americans are angry.

China has continued to censor new and old media, but this has hardly condemned it to "dismal economic failure" .

That seems to depend on which Mexico one sees: the romantic, or the dismal.

They reached the corner house in an angle of a dismal street, through the open door of which two men had just gone in.

For the poor black masses, however, the scheme has been a dismal failure.

Clyde saw his possible marriage to the girl as a dismal ending to all his hopes for a bright future.

Catherine's days, at this time, were dismal, and the weight of some of her hours was almost more than she could bear.

The strikes which gave British industry such a dismal reputation are far fewer and mostly confined to the public sector.

It's not like the dismal job market has forced me to move back to Wasilla, Alaska.

If you look at the period since the beginning of the financial crisis, Germany's economic performance has been dismal.

Thank you S&P. . . some body had to give us consequences for our dismal behavior. We deserve at least this downgrade.

She nodded. "Pretty dismal, isn't it? " She said with a light laugh.

Readers over the age of 40 will find it an uncomfortable reminder of a dangerous and dismal past.

Over the next five weeks, prices on 10-year Treasury notes soared, offering double-digit returns in an otherwise dismal year.

Turning out a dismal economic performance at home, Tehran props itself up by challenging enemies abroad: Sunni Arabs, Israel, and the West.

Some considered Mr Gates unduly blunt in warning that this Europe faces a dim and possibly dismal future.

Moreover, most of this improvement will peter out in subsequent years, leaving the outlook as dismal as before.

By the time he settled on economics, the once dismal science had become, if not exactly gay, then no longer grim, hopeless or resigned.

A dismal employment picture precipitates competing remedies from the president and his challengers. But will any of them work?

Who wanted to hear from dismal economists warning that the whole thing was, in effect, a giant Ponzi scheme?

The task was complicated, and made more important, by the dismal state of the economy.

The Chinese government appears ready to spend billions to grapple with this dismal situation.

Glioblastoma multiform is one of the most common types of primary central nervous system tumors with dismal prognosis.

Yous world, happening now. Envisage dismal, offish and evil, you can smile like the devil. Like the inexorable eye of the night.

It's going to take a long long time for things to turn around. A few good months followed by dismal one isn't surprising .

The true valuation of the market is no where near as dismal as the aggregate earnings reported by Standard & Poor's suggest.

This dismal rate of job creation raises the distinct possibility that America's recovery from the latest recession may also be jobless.

The Mongolian escapade marked the peak of his career, but it was also a dismal failure.

Much of it is still prosperous, despite a dismal period for the economy.

This the twoth, she was a scene right, the plain autumn seemed to be dismal to lose.

The reality of a nurse's job is still appalling pay, mounting workloads and dismal living conditions.

But many readers will question the risk that Ward took by leading them on such a contrived course to such a dismal destination.

Here, let me remind you that there is a reason why economics is called "the dismal science" .

There never was such a dreary, dismal scene as the formerly cheerful house presented!

The vibrant colour of the windowpane and its climbing spring leaves contrast the dismal fate of this historic landmark.

Indian education is in a dismal state with only about one out of eight children who start first grade graduating from 12 grade.

The search for artificial intelligence modelled on human brains has been a dismal failure.

THE dismal labour market has not sapped the government's ardour for welfare reform, nor that of voters.

FOR the past two years the Detroit motor show has been a dismal affair.

NCLB exposed the dismal performance of schools. But it has also demonstrated how clumsy Washington's hand can be.

The religious right is in a dismal state at the moment.

Other Keynesian episodes generated similarly dismal results, though fortunately never as bad as the Great Depression.

But 2011 was such a dismal year for European equities that many investors must hope that the bad news is already in the price.

So far, capital markets have not reacted much to the dismal long-term outlook.

The past few weeks have seen a few days of large sell-offs, including one following dismal demand at an auction for five-year paper.

The result was a bump in car sales of 2. 4% in July compared with June, an impressive figure after a year of dismal ones.

We were all depressed by the dismal weather.

These triumphs may be par for the course; after all, the government is as unpopular as incumbents in dismal economic times tend to be.

Although soccer is China's most popular sport, fans are continually frustrated by the dismal performance of the men's team.

this malthusian and ricardian model of growth and its limits led carlyle to characterize economics as the " dismal science . "

Inhibition of EGFR may be a promising adjuvant in chemotherapeutic strategy in the treatment of the dismal disease.

The third-quarter decline in GDP was a dismal development but it does not make a further boost to quantitative easing a sure thing.

Berkshire's stock and bond holdings were mostly responsible for the company's dismal performance, according to the report.

I find that when I choose to continue on when I'm tired, I'm still able to produce stuff, but at a dismal pace.

The market was seduced by Goldman Sachs' buoyant first quarter into believing the banking outlook might not, after all, be so dismal.

Even practitioners of the dismal science must concede that there are a few shafts of sunshine.

And is the practice as useful as its advocates claim, or is the popular suspicion that it leads to cut corners and dismal service correct?

her household duties would infringe upon her and Hurstwood sat there, a perfect load to contemplate , her fate seemed dismal and unrelieved.

It was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways.

The country's dismal February trade performance was the latest in a string of bleak economic figures.

It was a dismal winter night. A pale moon hung low in the sky.

This process turned out to be a dismal failure.

But, at the end of the film this dismal blue light comes to collide with a shocking red color.

In reporting the company's dismal second-quarter numbers earlier this month, Armstrong said a turnaround would take until 2013.

Despite the dismal use to which executives are putting Twitter, more and more are signing up for fear of being left behind.

Gates sounded a pessimistic note, warning of "the real possibility for a dim if not dismal future for the transatlantic alliance. "

For the story of Japan over the past 20 years is by no means as dismal as much western commentary would have it.

Thus, he was thunderstruck when he heard the truth, and received a dismal confession from Pen.

Like the rest of us, he is struggling to use the same dismal words with each passing day.

Faced with dismal employment prospects, the 18-year-old has turned his passion for percussion into a money-making venture.

The group also is exposed to the dismal refining business, in which just 81% of capacity is in operation due to low demand.

Debt and a dismal job market have hurt consumers' confidence, which further damps their willingness to spend.

At a hearing on Capitol Hill, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Keith Hall, described the unemployment figures as dismal.

In fact, the horn alarmed most of the inhabitants, who crowded to their windows and doors to gaze upon the dismal procession as it passed.

The fox, who had attended the steps of his fell mistress, uttered a dismal howl , and ran cowering back to the inner cave.

And as we get deeper into these dismal economic times, we are all going to have to get better at showcasing all the talents we have.

As everyone expected, Ted's chimerical scheme to make a fortune by raising ermines in his backyard proved a dismal failure.

This dismal comedy provokes a crash of expectations, however modest they may have been after the first theatrical version of the HBO series.

That constitutes the faintest of silver linings for the party in an otherwise dismal night.

This, he rightly adds, is pretty dismal in a country with a 10 per cent trend rate of real growth, or average nominal growth of 15 per cent.

All the above words are dismal, but the word "talent" is the worst.

He has never met Mr. Siris, but maintains, in an interview, that the hedge fund's recent dismal performance numbers 'speak for themselves. '

He warned that NATO had a "dim if not dismal future" if wealthy members like Germany and France don't invest more in their militaries.

Sadly, the dismal record of the two big parties and their leaders in previous governments is not encouraging.

American consumers remain hamstrung by debt, collapsed home prices and a dismal job market.

Frustrated, and with my player ranking at a dismal 430th out of 450, I give up.

After a dismal year, the dollar suddenly can't seem to lose.

Other dismal news included a decline in retail sales, and disturbing reports from the U. S. auto industry.

If it is not rectified, Mr Gates predicted, Nato faces a "dismal" future.

The dismal performance of existing investments has discouraged some Chinese buyers, and cautious Chinese regulators have discouraged others.

It was Britain's dismal economic performance, not the dethronement of sterling, that cost it its great-power status after 1945.

His conclusion: many saw a piece of the jigsaw but very few practitioners of the dismal science covered themselves in glory.

Deng was no student of the dismal science.

Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world?

As dismal as those outcomes, the numbers were still better than for the group that didn't attend preschool.

I believe that there's real value in just seeing something through, even if the results are pretty dismal.

For years, we've been playing by old rules and the results have been dismal. It's time for a bold new direction!

As dismal as the current recession is, the Great Depression puts it to shame.

Dismal Days were considered unlucky, while Red-Letter Days were important festivals throughout the year.

The one who came from farthest to my lodge, through deepest snows and most dismal tempests, was a poet.

Further tightening is quite unlikely given the dismal global outlook and declining trend of inflation.

It followed a clutch of closely watched business surveys of purchasing managers that painted a dismal picture of the economy in December.

Set against this dismal present and a bleak future, buying a home is a willful act of optimism.

IT'S been a dismal four years for New York.

In the rest of the world, a dismal production is forecast in Australia, reflecting extremely low water availability.

It is far from certain these dismal outcomes will materialise over the coming year.

the president, who has dismal approval ratings, spoke to the delegates via a satellite link instead.

Due to the dismal prognosis for patients with this malignant disease, a new mode of treatment is desperately needed.

Naoto Kan, prime minister since then, appeared to be made in the same dismal mould.

Fanny asked what it was that made that odd-looking little man so dismal ?

Owing to dismal weather, the 2011 British Domestic Spider Season promises to be the best yet.

But the roots of the unrest lie in the country's dismal economic state, which the unions and protesters blame on the president.

The Argentine was dismissed over the weekend after a dismal run of form which saw them collect just three points from four games.

ECONOMICS has long been known as the dismal science.

May has proved a dismal month for stock investors for a second straight year.

He was a ruthless, petty man and a dismal leader.

If the companies never invest, banks never loan, neither residents consume, the prospect of economy will turn more terrible and dismal.

But a dismal decade for equities and low bond yields have now sent many companies into deficit.

Primary malignant melanoma of the urethra in male patients is a rare entity, noted to have a dismal prognosis in recent reviews.

Adult anaplastic astrocytomas comprise a small subset of intramedullary spinal cord tumors and carry a dismal prognosis.

There is no path to guide us out of this dismal maze.

On January 4th dismal jobs figures seemed to confirm what many feared: a downturn is at hand.

Barring a different clock speed for SP units, or other technology we are unaware of, this is a dismal performance from the Fermi shades.

If nothing else, the dismal figures for the fourth quarter add weight to that argument.

College graduates today face a dismal job market and often carry with them thousands of dollars in student loan debt.

Remember, England's record in international football is, given its population, wealth and mania for the game, dismal.

This dismal outlook might not seem the ideal setting for a call to new ambition in US social policy.

When we saw Vancouver Island approaching, dismal gray clouds greeted us and I instantly missed the scorching dry heat of Wyoming.

Compared with former colonies in Asia, Africa is still a dismal failure.

However dismal the urban, scene may appear to the visitor, levels of rural poverty can be worse.

But the entire industry is facing the same combination of struggling economies, skittish customers and dismal growth prospects.

Economic prospects were so dismal in the U. S. that more people were emigrating than immigrating.

Stung by the public's dismal reaction to their sophomore effort, the band took time off to regroup and plan their next move.

But the money must be spent well, and Pakistan's record on this is dismal.

But, as is evident in the dismal state of affairs, our collective thinking simply isn't good enough.

Luckily, the assassination of the world's most wanted man coincided with the dismal performance of the Lib Dems in the local elections.

He felt dismal after reading piece of bad news in the newspaper.

blaming his own overall dismal life on his parents.

Some analysts said even without the dismal jobs data the Fed's move would have been inevitable.

Dismal weather hangs over the sea, carrying we cruised ChiDian struck to fly to wind dive point.

Such conflicts of interest exist across many professions, of course. But they are particularly common in the dismal science.

Immediately after dismal ray, I see a clear handsome pretty side face of pure that sharp angle, is accurate a Suo promise.

The White House's response to Hurricane Katrina was dismal.

The land is in a dismal condition.

But Facebook found you can't beat negativity for user engagement, as dismal status updates garnered more comments than positive ones.

But the broader question reached beyond politics and into the realm of the dismal science itself.

The blue-chip index's 4. 3% drop for the month was the worst since a dismal May, and the measure's first down August in five years.

IE 9, despite my hopes that it would show better, came in, a dismal last with a mark of only 1, 185. 8-ms (milliseconds).

They relate a dismal roll-call of anxiety, stress, depression, alcohol and opiate addictions, child abuse and suicides.

Another dismal day on the overseas markets as the global economic downturn continues.

Question C: 'Does the dismal performance of new stock listings suggest the market is hitting a bottom? '

Johnnie To from time to time it is necessary to make a personal feeling of the film breathe, the dismal box-office disadvantage.

Efforts to tackle these problems have produced dismal results, as opposing groups lay claim to King's dream of colour-blindness.

The government, already pressured to ease its fiscal squeeze by each set of dismal economic figures, can scarcely afford such disunity.

The declining outlook comes after third-quarter U. S. Department of Commerce data showed dismal October growth online.

The occupation of Basra ended in dismal defeat; the operation in southern Afghanistan has scarcely looked much better.

However, approximately 0%~0% of the patients will suffer recurrence after failure of primary therapy, and their prognoses are rather dismal.

We don't know if these dismal correlations generalize to other countries, or if the gender differences will fade with time.

But I think the dismal housing data also reflects a systematic human bias: loss aversion.

Meanwhile, the actors who could, in principle, take steps to reverse this dismal course of events are largely paralysed.

to my dismal, he always comes back in the mid-night.

There have been times in my life when I wasn't happy, when things seemed dismal, when I wish I had more.

Xixishushu a few leaves, set off with a dismal flowers.

And I'd be remiss in not pointing out MINI's dismal record of reliability.

PetroChina's dismal post-IPO performance has prompted a flurry of online anger in chatrooms and blogs that investors read.

Poor children are trapped in dismal schools, while richer parents spend ever more cash on tutoring their offspring.

The overall economic outlook remains quite dismal for the first half of 2009, and only a modest recovery is expected in the second half.

Although growth has returned, the latest jobs figures are dismal and house repossessions continue to rise.

Not even the most dismal orthodox economist would claim that material wealth is a substitute for kinship .

Buying at those kinds of values, 'you'd better believe you're going to get dismal returns for a considerable chunk of time, ' said Mr.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

For instance, Beijing would like to reduce its dollar holdings, given the greenback's dismal performance.

The dismal growth in manufacturing has also meant poverty in India has declined more slowly than in other fast-growing economies.

Economists said even these dismal predictions could be too optimistic.

Raised in a dismal charity school, her only friend is Helen (Elizabeth Taylor).

In a generally dismal climate for media companies two outfits are thriving.

The definitive history of Japan's dismal decade has yet to be written.

The dismal science, it seems, is an optimistic profession.

The dismal science traditionally assumes that people know their own interests, and are best left to mind their own business.

Xianxie of : I did not leave the National Day Xianxie up, and if there are opportunities to welcome Hangzhou dismal.

Sectarian clashes, a dismal feature of Egyptian life for more than a decade, have risen alarmingly.

Nonetheless, the dismal outcome of the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference should make us hopeful. Why?

The key insight of the dismal science bears repeating: there is no free lunch.

Economists said July's shrinking gap suggested third-quarter growth could improve on the second quarter's dismal performance.

Arrived at the dreadful place, he wormed his small body through the crowd and saw the dismal spectacle.

The only problem is the country's dismal politics.

U. S. markets, which were hit on Friday by a dismal job market report, were closed for Labor Day.

The Treasury's recent forecasts for the budget deficit, due to rise next year to 8% of GDP, were dismal.

It's no wonder that entrepreneurs are perceived as risk-takers and failure rates for start-ups are so dismal.

Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty.

Its energy infrastructure was dismal, most Haitians having no access to electricity.

the dismal state of the world, in the silent solitude of the fleeting Li Momo.

Consider the dismal science when Marshall took it up.

The poet said to me in a dismal strain.

The declines underscored the dismal start to the year for global stock markets.

It is hardly surprising that research into employee engagement invariably throws up dismal findings.

Owen believes the defining moment of England's Group E campaign will prove to be their dismal 0-0 home draw against Macedonia.

Although most patients can be cured, outcome of some patients remains dismal.

The retreat in bonds suggested markets were taking the ISM news in stride after days of dismal economic news.

The sector is still some 2. 2m jobs below its pre-recession peak, and new hiring there would help a dismal labour market.

But its poverty and hunger indexes remain dismal, with roughly 42 percent of all Indian children under the age of 5 being underweight.

That peak now looks increasingly likely to match the dismal record of previous recessions and exceed 3m people.

FAMED for its dismal climate, Britain is not an obvious pioneer of solar energy.

But these advantages are offset by misgovernment, rampant corruption and dismal infrastructure.

As Mr. Ferraro and Ms. Taylor put it in the subtitle to their paper, it is ''a dismal performance from the dismal science. ''

Dismal. Overcast . Little piles of dirty snow still stubbornly littering the lawn.

What ails you, Cathy? ' he was saying when I entered: `you look as dismal as a drowned whelp.

Without the chrysanthemums , the courtyard looked dismal and empty.

Despite their dismal reputation, the oil speculators provide a vital service.

That dependency was highlighted Thursday by Ireland's dismal economic report.

Add to that the dismal judicial system, and the outlook is grim.

Four years passed, and on a dismal spring afternoon I was running errands and found myself feeling depressed.

Dismal as December was, for GM and Ford it marked a slight improvement from the two previous months.

The airport is particularly dismal: cramped, squalid, with rude staff and far too few flights.

Each wandered away, from time to time, but the same dismal fascination always brought them back presently.

I had to stem a rapid rush of retrospective thought before I quailed to the dismal present.

The CEO is blaming the weak economy and falling home prices for the dismal profit outlook.

These dismal stories have grown familiar, but it is what happened next that tangles our instincts.

All the while, the bad economic news invites closer association with the dismal debt legacy of George W. Bush's administration.

Indeed, the fiscal track record for the Olympics before Los Angeles was dismal.

Working conditions in too many of these factories are dismal, and the pay is, too.

The house is so antique and dismal that it depresses me dreadfully.

The place assumes the most dismal, sinister character when darkness came on.

The city has had a dismal stretch, even by its standards.