A failed monsoon in India.

And that, unfortunately, has been in short supply.

The Treaty of Nice (2000) was result of a rather poor compromise.

Gold is also a poor hedge against currency fluctuations.

Indeed, the evidence that was presented publicly was thin and exaggerated.

The world could see that there would be little practical follow up.

Indeed, the efficiency of public spending is doubtful, with scant positive results to show for it.

Buchanan concluded that politicians pursuit of self interest inevitably leads to poor outcomes.

There is a widespread belief that Pakistani women are doing poorly when it comes to obtaining education.

Equally, imports consist of cheap Chinese products of appallingly poor quality.

La Mosquitia is one of the most remote areas of Honduras, where public services are very poor or even non existent.

The Kyoto Treaty on controlling climate change was, as Harvard professor Rob Stavins puts it, too little, too fast.

In 2007, researchers isolated the adipose gene, which those researchers hypothesize serves to keep animals lean during times of plenty.

European officials in Brussels and the major EU governments should not go for political and economic half measures.

Rural area is characterized by poverty related problems unresolved housing conditions, unemployment, poor infrastructure, the inexistence of institutions that would provide assistance.

However, those countries with poorly developed computer and technology infrastructure were falling further behind all of the others. In short, the divide was widening at the bottom end of the spectrum.

True, Bush s plan will prove far too little and comes far too late to stabilize Iraq.

These forces are poorly trained and badly equipped to take on fighters with experience in international jihadist campaigns.

The poorer an economy s growth prospects, the larger the fiscal correction and deleveraging needed to convince markets of underlying solvency.

This misallocation of capital hampers any recovery and dims longer term growth prospects.

And liberal capitalism itself with its mediocre political leaders and cartoonish public discourse has become a poor advertisement for the Absolute Idea.

Recall that the Rwandan genocide was preceded by a similar lack of enthusiasm for financing the UN mission there.

Imposing unilateral duties after unilaterally labeling China a currency manipulator would undermine the multilateral system, with little payoff.

and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.

And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.

But the evidence for this claim is meager and anecdotal. A recent survey found that most small businesses support the reform.

Haiti s infrastructure was meager before the earthquake (hence the shocking mortality rate), and most of that is now rubble.

After more than 30 years of programmes and spending more than 230 billion, the United States battle against cancer has little to show for its efforts.

Recently, there have been efforts to revive the strategy by renaming it the Union for the Mediterranean, but still with little concrete achievement.

Harvests may halve and rivers on which irrigation and hydropower depend may become a mere trickle.

These contractures occur not only in the foot but also in the hand where the loss of the musculature makes the hand appear gaunt and skeletal.

In fact, continued isolationism would force Iran to reinvent nuclear technologies already invented by others, no doubt with poor results.

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For now, our current climate policies are poor and our politicians consistently find ways to make them even poorer.

On the left, Royal, the Socialist president of the region of Poitou Charentes, has scant government experience, serving brief stints as environment minister, family minister, and education minister.

The United States spends more on health care than any other country (both per capita and as a percentage of income), but gets poorer outcomes.

As a result, its ability to maintain services and the military capacity to respond to any maneuver by the Khartoum government aimed against the peace agreement is seriously compromised.

So, after five years, the Colombia Plan, a part of two simultaneous global wars against drugs and terrorism has produced only uncertain and scanty results.

To be sure, I have been exposed to flimsy sources, and newspapers of the future should help readers learn what a good source is, and what good citizen journalism requires.

Bush s war, with its poor strategic vision and worse planning, increased Iran s regional standing in a way that the country was unlikely ever to have achieved on its own.

Standstill is regress and regress produces a vicious circle meagre results at the negotiating table, no implementation, more insecurity, less willingness to talk, no results and so on.

With Iraq rapidly descending into bloody chaos, the prospects for holding successful democratic elections in January, as the US and the Iraqi interim government have promised, look bleak.

In Afghanistan, that so called war has essentially been based on eradication campaigns and alternative livelihood projects, which have achieved only scant results.

One reason that interest rate spreads in financial markets remain high is that distressed eurozone countries growth prospects look so weak.

Moreover, the document makes scant and controversial references to sovereignty, while it seems to call into question the fact that the United Nations is basically an intergovernmental Organization to defend States.