His prim teacher, Miss Rich, a martinet in tweed suit and broach ("And no laughing, either," she sputters), requites him with a dreadful report card that produces a storm of parental prohibition: "No ice cream!
The positive report of his drainage results in 1883 was followed by a dreadful report in 1887.
My TV debate with Chingos on class size is here; here is a link to the radio show where I debated Raegen Miller, associate director for Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, about their dreadful report.
Surely, you thought, it cannot be as dreadful as reports suggest. .
The dreadful jobs report landed among tentative signs of improvement in a few areas of the economy, with recent snippets of data lifting stock markets and sowing cautious hopes that the beginnings of a recovery might be taking shape.
Last week brought a dreadful earnings report from Tata Motors, including a loss at the EBIT level and an asset write-down totaling 3.1 billion euros.
And all those dreadful losses reported to be happening in the hedge fund industry, swirling with rumors about insider trading after the closure of David Ganek's Level Global and three other hedge funds in the wake of FBI raids?
Alternatively, if food-crop production were to remain stable, a huge amount of extra land would be needed for the fuels, or food prices would rise by anything from 15-40%, which would have dreadful consequences.Special report The 9 billion-people question How much is enough?
Britain's banking industry, which has just reported dreadful results, will not welcome a state-owned mortgage lender galumphing around, luring depositors into government-backed deposit accounts (gilts in all but name, yet offering fatter rates) and using that advantage when it lends.
Chances were missed to save the life of a four-year-old boy who suffered from "terrifying and dreadful" abuse, a report has found.
