Social conditions are abysmal, in line with such poverty.

Tom speaks excellent Russian, but his German is abysmal.

But that harvest will not even be as good as last year s abysmal one.

But in the third great arena of life, love, Len is an abysmal failure.

If not as dark as 15 years ago, China s human rights record remains abysmal.

For progressives, these abysmal facts are part of the standard litany of frustration and justified outrage.

Yet, despite these robust changes, poverty remains widespread, inequality abysmal, and social resentment is on the rise.

Abysmal air and land transport limit the ability to move fighting forces to where they are needed most.

Indeed, Greece is the only one that has consistently dragged its feet on reforms and sustained abysmal export performance.

The problem began in the late 1960's and early 1970's, when Iraq experienced a series of abysmal harvests.

Compared to its fellow megacities such as New York and Singapore, Mumbai has an abysmal paucity of gardens and playgrounds.

Americans have once again finished a presidential campaign season in which the quality of the debate over economic policy was abysmal.

Since India gained independence 58 years ago, billions of rupees have been doled out in numerous educational policies, but general primary education remains abysmal.

The Taliban blamed nowadays for just about all of Afghanistan s ills have officially been gone for nearly seven years, so why are conditions still so abysmal?

But after the debacle in Florida, the Supreme Court decision, and the abysmal presidency that followed, I learned a simple lesson Not all politicians are equal.

There was a first study done by colleagues at Stanford and that we replicated that showed that those people that identify as being high multimedia taskers are absolutely abysmal at multitasking.

His abysmal human rights record remains, but the flamboyant Guide of the Revolution ceased flirting with weapons of mass destruction and global terrorism in exchange for the end of sanctions and international rehabilitation.

But official measures of GDP may grossly overstate growth in the economy as they don't capture the fact that business sentiment among small firms is abysmal and their output is still falling sharply.

And, given his abysmal popularity ratings, he may decide to play the wild card, embrace a euro skeptic and anti government stance, and try to bring down Prime Minister Mario Monti s technocratic administration.

The IMF s decision was in response to the Pakistani government s failure to take promised steps to increase its abysmal tax to GDP ratio, which stands at less that 10 , one of the lowest levels in the emerging world.

Of course, the economics behind the program that the troika (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) foisted on Greece five years ago has been abysmal, resulting in a 25 decline in the country s GDP.

He may not wish to be king again, but he certainly can be a kingmaker, owing to his control of Mediaset, Italy s largest media group. And, given his abysmal popularity ratings, he may decide to play the wild card, embrace a euro skeptic and anti government stance, and try to bring down Prime Minister Mario Monti s technocratic administration.

Indeed, after ten years of uninterrupted macroeconomic stability something Mexico had not experienced since the 1960 s the middle class has expanded dramatically, and reasonably priced bank credit is now available to millions who had been excluded in the past. Yet, despite these robust changes, poverty remains widespread, inequality abysmal, and social resentment is on the rise.

Nor was Muammar Khaddafi s decision to stop being an international pariah entirely unrelated to his concern to bequeath to his son a state that lives in peace with the world. His abysmal human rights record remains, but the flamboyant Guide of the Revolution ceased flirting with weapons of mass destruction and global terrorism in exchange for the end of sanctions and international rehabilitation.

If not as dark as 15 years ago, China s human rights record remains abysmal. The British Foreign Office s annual human rights report for 2004, the most comprehensive in the EU, condemns China s extensive use of the death penalty (even for such crimes as corruption, pimping, drug offenses, and tax fraud), its systematic torture of dissidents, and its restrictions on freedom of speech including the Internet and religion.

NEW YORK While the United States recently reported 3.5 GDP growth in the third quarter, suggesting that the most severe recession since the Great Depression is over, the American economy is actually much weaker than official data suggest. But official measures of GDP may grossly overstate growth in the economy as they don't capture the fact that business sentiment among small firms is abysmal and their output is still falling sharply.