Word: dismalness
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...special rapporteur from the United Nations was in Jakarta last week on a mission to assess the state of the Indonesian judiciary. He told reporters that what he saw had been even more disappointing than his already dismal expectations. For the duration of his 32-year reign, former President Suharto prevented the growth of an independent judiciary and kneecapped the concept of aggressive prosecution. Though Bapak is several years removed from power, many believe the rich and powerful still benefit from a favorably disposed judiciary. And the military's influence, far from shrinking, is being shored up. Which...
...Laden was raised in Saudi Arabian affluence and has spent much of his life that way. I believe he is living somewhere in the kind of comfort allowed by his wealth. If you think he and his entourage are living an ascetic life in a dismal cave, you are mistaken. CORDELL PUCKETT Albuquerque...
...city the scale of Manchester," won the Urbis commission in a blind international competition. Already his No. 1 Deansgate, a 60-m-high residential tower, has penthouse flats that sell for more than $1.5 million - record prices for Manchester. The Piccadilly Gardens project cleaned up another eyesore, transforming a dismal, sunken, traffic-choked island into a pleasant park in the heart of the city. Ando's curving white concrete pavilion, which will serve as an information center, café and venue for events, screens the gardens from the busy bus and tram station behind them. Overlooking the park...
That's why success rates with egg freezing have been so dismal. In Italy, the University of Bologna's Infertility and IVF Center leads the world with an impressive 27 frozen-egg babies. But with more than 600 women each year undergoing the egg-freezing procedure there, the center's past success rates have been as low as 1%. Even Reproductive Biology Associates, the Atlanta clinic where Christia Murdaugh froze her eggs back in 1997, has all but dropped out of the field. Of 30 patients, only two delivered healthy babies. A third had a miscarriage, and the other...
...France, Argentina and Portugal are not the only sides to have provided insufficient entertainment. Overshadowed by the fall of the European and South American giants was the dismal showing by the principal African challengers. Cameroon and Nigeria came into the tournament fully expecting to make the last eight, and perhaps go even further. Nigerian coach Adegboye Onigbinde and Cameroonian captain Rigobert Song each boasted that his side would fulfill, if belatedly, PelE's old prophesy that an African team would win the cup in the 20th century. Instead, both sides suffered early shocks and then exited with bad grace, Cameroon...