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  the first dismal dispiriting days of November

• It was Harold Wilson's most frustrating week since last July's sterling crisis and it was, in fact, a pretty dismal week for British diplomacy in general.
• 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 .
• Facing global condemnation of their dismal record on women's rights, the Taliban are easing up--but only a little.

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News & Articles

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• American men suffer worst Wimbledon in over 100 years
  By Paul Majendie LONDON (Reuters) - For the first time in 101 years no American will be playing in the third round of the men's singles at Wimbledon. That dismal fact was confirmed on Thursday when their last man standing, 156th ranked qualifier Bobby Reynolds, bowed out to world number one Novak Djokovic on Centre Court. His failure completed a dismal day for the U.S. after 33-year-old James ...
  June 27, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Tennis-American men suffer worst Wimbledon in over 100 years
  By Paul Majendie LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) - For the first time in 101 years no American will be playing in the third round of the men's singles at Wimbledon. That dismal fact was confirmed on Thursday when their last man standing, 156th ranked qualifier Bobby Reynolds, bowed out to world number one Novak Djokovic on Centre Court. His failure completed a dismal day for the U.S. after 33-year-old ...
  June 27, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports
• Wisconsin dismal in providing dental care for poor children
  A new report says Wisconsin's track record for providing dental care to low-income children is dismal.
  June 25, 2013 - Pioneer Press

Quotes

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• President Bush in 940 News
  We want the people to know there's a better day ahead - that today your life may look dismal but tomorrow life's going to be better,said Bush, who earlier declared seven counties a major disaster area, making residents eligible for federal...
• Kyle Busch in FOXNews
  We unloaded here and we were absolutely junk,Busch said. "When we were here Friday, I just thought it was going to be a dismal weekend and I was wondering what tire barrier we were going to put it in. It was a bad feeling, but these guys...
• Margaret Thatcher in Reuters
  Milton Friedman revived the economics of liberty, when it had been all but forgotten. He was an intellectual freedom fighter. Never was there a less dismal practitioner of 'the dismal science' (economics),Thatcher said in a statement.