Word: dismalness
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...time there's been any letup in police pressure on dealing, we've seen related crime and general insecurity rise as thugs figure the coast is clear." Keeping kids in schools and off the streets would also help. School attendance and educational attainment levels in many deprived areas are dismal. Fort says only 38% of Sens students entering secondary school have mastered reading, writing and math. That's a severe disadvantage for any pupil, but it's worse for the children of the projects. "Many children live in broken homes or ones where neither parent has ever worked, where ambition...
...government's record in dealing with the 400,000 people it has ordered to be deported is dismal. A sampling of cases last year by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that of illegal aliens from countries supporting terrorism who had been ordered to be deported, only 6% of those not already in custody were actually removed. Of 114 Iranians with final orders for removal, just 11 could be found and were deported. Of 67 Sudanese with final-removal orders, only one was deported. And of 46 Iraqis with final-removal orders, only four were sent...
...declared the Bush Administration hopeless from the start, and while that may have been premature, it's undeniable that the White House's environmental record--from the abandonment of Kyoto to the President's broken campaign pledge to control carbon output to the relaxation of emission standards--has been dismal. George W. Bush's recent rhetorical nods to America's oil addiction and his praise of such alternative fuel sources as switchgrass have yet to be followed by real initiatives...
...terms of importance, while "resolving the issue of unification and/or independence" scored just four out of 10. Public weariness with the wrangling over independence has had an effect: the DPP fared poorly in local elections last December, and a recent poll put Chen's approval rating at a dismal...
...translated into a groundswell of support for the Democrats. Right now, the approval rating for Congressional Democrats is no higher (39%) than that of Republicans, and 56% of voters don't believe the Democrats offer a clear set of alternative policies. Nor will President Bush's dismal 39% approval rating necessarily drag down his party: almost half of voters (44%) were indifferent to whether their preferred Congressional candidate supports or opposes Bush...