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While the vendor-to-vendor programme did seem to improve shops' knowledge and behaviour in a relatively short time, the gap between actual and desired performance was still depressingly large.
A group of researchers in Indonesia, for example, recently told a depressingly familiar story of trying to search the medical literature in preparation for a research project [2]; access barriers got in their way.
Travel is all about distinctiveness, but I bet that the table of contents for the Chicago book is depressingly identical to that of the Philadelphia and Toronto guides.
The Turkish earthquake of August 17 and its disastrously bungled relief effort--the official death toll now stands at 17,997 --is a depressingly familiar story.
And isn't it nobler to deliver a depressingly true "message" than to shade the truth so you can get elected?