Indexes are up on the day (for the moment), but interbank rates are still distressingly high.
Although more records are in the system now, the results are still distressingly deficient.
By international standards, the United States still remains unusually dependent on dirty forms of energy (especially coal) and its cars and trucks still have distressingly low fuel-efficiency levels (see charts).Mr Bush, however, emboldened by the stronger Republican majority in the Senate since the election, is now keen to have another go.
But we still know distressingly little about the programs Snowden sought to expose.
Yet, progress is distressingly slow.
The abdomens of those with kwashiorkor, however, distend in a way that is distressingly familiar from televised appeals for famine relief.
None, however, linger like "D Is for Dogfight," a mesmeric, slow-motion ballet of brutality so distressingly realistic that you may never be able to name a dog Buddy again.
As his own set approached, however, he grew progressively less comfortable, and when the moment of truth finally came he looked distressingly like a guest at a funeral.
Calm has yet to produce growth, however, and while the macroeconomic picture looks grim the odds of another round of euro-crisis panic will remain distressingly high.According to the latest release from eurostat the euro-zone unemployment rate ticked up to 11.8% in November, 1.2 percentage points above the level a year earlier.
This sounds distressingly familiar.
