Word: dismally
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...economic slump is now upon us, the Eurozone - the 15-nation economic bloc that uses the common European currency - was formally declared to be in recession, for the first time since the euro was adopted nearly a decade ago. Oddly enough, Asian and European equity markets responded to the dismal news by posting gains of between 0.5% to 4% throughout...
...Missing its starting forward’s consistency on both ends of the court, Harvard went 2-10 during that stretch to close out the year with a dismal 8-22 record overall...
...Ohio in 2004 were called Democratic on the basis of exit polls before mysteriously ending up on the GOP side, costing the Democrats both elections. In the two cases, state officials at the helm of the electoral process were GOP loyalists, intimately involved in the presidential campaigns. With a dismal ethics record and an ideologically rationalized "end justifies the means" worldview, is there any doubt that an increasingly desperate Republican Party will continue to resort to what has worked in the past? Francisco Rocco, Los Angeles...
...sweeping health-care plan, and shifting the tax burden toward those higher on the income scale. By Wednesday congressional power players were already planning the path forward in anticipation of these initiatives. House Republicans are gaming leadership changes, and among top Democrats, there's an urgency to raise their dismal approval ratings by delivering for Obama. "Given the [Democratic] majorities in both bodies, it'll be incumbent on everyone here to get things done," says Jim Manley, the spokesman for Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid. (See behind-the-scenes pictures of Barack Obama's campaign...
...religious constituencies, there is one voting bloc that remains largely unmoved by Obamamania: white Evangelicals. One-quarter of them voted for Obama on Tuesday - despite a warning from conservative columnist Janet Porter that they could be risking their eternal souls by doing so - an improvement on John Kerry's dismal showing in 2004. But against a candidate like McCain, who is famously disliked by many Evangelicals, in a campaign in which Democrats engaged in a record level of outreach to Evangelicals, and at a time when the Evangelical community is expanding its consciousness to focus on traditionally Democratic issues like...