"It's particularly a terrible idea, because the Giuliani administration had a very dismal record on making information accessible to the public," said Michael Wallace, a historian and co-author of "Gotham: a History of New York to 1898".
In Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 69," the meaning of the second law of thermodynamics and its dismal decree that all information inevitably crumbles away is made vivid by a woman named Oedipa, who wonders how many men have slept on a sailor's burning mattress, how many lives lost forever.
The list includes a criminal investigation into the company's accounting methods, a probe by government securities regulators, loss of investor confidence, image problems among corporate customers, and dismal forecasts for the entire information technology sector.
The government of Vietnam's freedom of information record is dismal.
There were no organizations to turn to in those days only libraries were safe, although the information contained was dismal".
At the moment, the review says, such information-sharing is dismal.
"This is just another piece of information in a series of increasingly dismal findings," said Department of Water Resources spokesman Doug Carlson.
The report, released under a Freedom of Information request, was the bookend of a dismal professional week for Ms. Stark, a lecturer at Baruch College.
One of the core challenges of marketing during that dismal financial era was how to present key brand information effectively and efficiently, just as it is today.
Even in such a cohort, in a metropolitan city like Mumbai with almost universal access to television, the knowledge regarding DOTS was dismal, highlighting the government's failure to increase public awareness through information campaigns.
