| Most companies are dismally behind the U.S. in such areas as exploiting information technology to get the maximum in productivity. |
| The reasons why the United States lags dismally behind the rest of the western world in media education are many. |
| One can only pity the dismally short-sighted group on city council that believes this is a good idea. |
| The president, as dismally as he is doing, is doing 10 points better than this, what has been for most Americans a do-nothing Congress. |
| Reginald stared dismally at the biscuit-tin, which now presented an unattractive array of rejected cracknels. |
| Many of today's students are graduating from high school dismally unprepared for higher learning and employment. |
