In India British companies have embarked on giant takeover deals to dismal effect, while their German counterparts have built up successful production hubs.There was a good reason for this.
In a new line of attack, top Democrats are arguing that Mitt Romney and the Republicans, with their focus on spending cuts, are following Europe's austerity-first example, to dismal effect so far: Greece over the edge; Italy, Spain, Portugal on the edge; Britain in recession; and the United States suffering through a needlessly weak recovery because of government cuts.
"It really does take time to change large hierarchical institutions," she notes--and a tough funding climate has a dismal effect on morale, too.
That wing's leader is Costas Lapavitsas, a longtime academic who argues that the euro has had a dismal effect on both the Greek economy and psyche, and is even bad for other European Union nations.
A dismal side effect of Ballet Theater's programming is that the audience is encouraged to pick favorites.
We're living in some kind of kingdom of effects, dismal, paranoid, suspicious; we're waiting to learn what roads brought us here.
In a handwritten cri de coeur introducing a series of collage-drawings representing plans for the paintings in this show, Ms. Feinstein meditates on the dismal economy's effects on herself and other Americans.
It will also monitor whether this exercise has any effect on dismal voting turnouts in the area.
Shock and embarrassment over this performance — in effect, a dismal return on the international community's investment — prompted a turnaround.
But he might have given us infinitely more, if he were not imprisoned by a dismal production that elevates visual effects above narrative coherence and exploration of character.
