He cites a Heritage Lottery Fund report from 2014, which produced a bleak set of figures.
"They really are faced with a bleak set of alternatives," Mr. Mann said.
That may well be the IASB's aim.On November 26th, Japan's life insurers posted a bleak set of interim reports.
On February 24th, WPP, the world's biggest advertising group, unveiled a bleak set of results for 2002, with profits down by 19% on the year before.
Bono chants "Numb," a bleak set of horizon-shrinking imperatives ("Don't project/ Don't connect/ Protect/Don't expect"), amid buzzes and zaps that sound as if they could come from a welding shop or a torture chamber.
But shortly before 6pm on day two, they had all gone, once again begging the age-old question: "What is wrong with British tennis?" Steve Martens, the LTA's player director, was the man co-opted to try to emphasise the positives from a bleak set of results.
When we asked Freda what it was like to work with such a bleak set of statistics she told us this: "It was pretty heavy, even for someone like myself who draws dark and creepy things all the time.
You couldn't ask for a bleaker set of landscapes than those of Fallout, with their gouged roadways and weary clumps of blackened brickwork, but nor could you ask for a livelier interplay of systems and devices morality, reputation, nutrition, bartering, right on down to the mechanics of aiming and firing a pistol.
Despite this strange and eerie terrain (rendered even eerier by John Gromada's evocative sound design), we feel we have been here before with Mr. Fugard: a black actor, a white actor, an impossibly bleak setting somewhere in his native South Africa — this time it's Motherwell, near Port Elizabeth.
And he's serious about all this American Gothic stuff: His album "The Hill" was an appropriately bleak setting of 18 poems from Edgar Lee Masters's "Spoon River Anthology".
