The bank hadn't made an acquisition since the miserable crisis-era grab of HBOS, the deal that came with a state-sponsored bailout.
report warned: "Longer lives can be a great benefit, but there has been a collective failure to address the implications and without urgent action this great boon could turn into a series of miserable crises".
Then nearly all the mines closed, throwing a lot of towns which had only ever been built in order to house miners into a miserable identity crisis of unemployment and pointlessness.
A22 Senator Tom Daschle, the chamber's top Democrat, called President Bush's diplomatic efforts in the Iraq crisis a miserable failure in a speech that drew strong criticism from the White House and Congressional Republicans.
Senator Tom Daschle, the Democratic leader, called President Bush's diplomatic efforts in the Iraq crisis a miserable failure on Monday, in a speech that drew strong criticism today from the White House and Congressional Republicans.
But Mr Berlusconi could paralyse the political system, probably forcing another election, alarming the markets and reviving the euro crisis: a miserable mess even by his own standards.That leaves Mr Bersani, whose centre-left coalition has led in the polls since the election was called.
He knows which things he does that are making him more miserable but until his health crisis has not been motivated to live a life with no regrets.
The internal rate of return (IRR) of its 2006 vintage fund was a miserable -25% on March 31st.The financial crisis hit some of Europe's largest buy-out funds hard.
Two weeks after Colin L. Powell and Kofi Annan visited the Darfur region of Sudan in hopes of arresting a human crisis, conditions are still miserable.
Today, we don't know how to read the times we're in: whether we're living in a great crisis, or just a miserable one.
In the years before the financial crisis, the Fed was a miserable failure in that role, a creature of the banks, not a watchdog.
