Though we know that women are smart investments, pitifully little funding actually flows into their hands.
All of which heightened the second risk: that the pitifully slow vote count will tarnish the polling.
What are gadget makers doing right that luxury makers are pitifully failing at?
In spite of a recent rally on a deal to retire a third of the workforce, its share price is pitifully weak.
People are realizing that even if obligations are somehow met, the "return" on their Social Security taxes will be pitifully small or nonexistent.
As long as only a polymath like this can be a success in Russia, there will be pitifully few of Mr Klimin's kind.
Most pitifully of all, West Bengal has received less than 2% of the foreign direct investment that poured into India over the past decade.
For the pitifully football obsessed, the pre-game preparation really began in April in the NFL draft, and it's gone on every single day since then.
Even though companies are far sounder than they were a decade ago, with fewer debts and more focused operations, Japan's productivity is still pitifully low.
Mr Berezovsky was kept out of the top spot for declared income by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of Kalmykia, a pitifully poor republic on the Volga.
We arrived at the right peak at five, two of us dragging ourselves pitifully, while Carlo was seized by a sinister hilarity that I found slightly irritating.
Neither has Mr Arzu managed to achieve some important goals of the 1996 peace agreement, such as raising pitifully low tax revenue, and reforming the electoral and judicial systems.
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From there, he went on buying up the country's diamond mines until he controlled 90% of the world's gemstones, most of them extracted by pitifully paid African workers under fierce surveillance.
That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009).
Powerful as it was in places, that manuscript, published pretty much as he had left it, was pitifully incomplete and nobody could really be sure how Pasolini would have brought it to completion.
Remove tens of billions of dollars invested in oil installations in Nigeria, Angola, Gabon and (more recently) in Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, and the stock of capital invested elsewhere in the continent is pitifully small.
On June 8th, the UN Development Programme released a statement showing that progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which were supposed to cut extreme poverty in half and improve social indicators such as education and health care, has been pitifully slow.
The number of foreigners who have completed their studies in Japan is pitifully low compared with other advanced economies: 0.7% of the total, compared with 29% in Australia, 16% in Britain and 13% in America, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
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