11.  Microsoft has kept an eye on the slowing economy and the dismal state of affairs for PC sales.

12.  Paul Wood, the CNN correspondent in Belgrade, reports that Milosevic is in a dismal state of mind.

13.  Still, parents remain hopeful, largely because they say any reform isbetter than the dismal state of the schools five years ago.

14.  The dismal start of the presidential campaign masks the even more dismal state of the national legislative process.

15.  The dismal state of security was deplored again Friday by two State Department commissions that investigated the August attacks.

16.  This dismal state of affairs has not yet reached crisis proportions, although a feeling of bureaucratic drift is unmistakable.

17.  A union representing thousands of medical workers on Thursday demanded that Health Minister Mimi Vitkova resign because of the dismal state of health care in the impoverished country.

18.  Spain enjoyed territorial domination but was denied through a combination of sterling Mexican defensive work and the dismal state of a pitch which cut up at the earliest opportunity.

19.  The IMF is partly responsible for this dismal state of affairs in Indonesia.

20.  To facilitate reliable analyses of the current dismal state of affairs, it is indispensable to reconstruct the leaky structure of the State Budget and its components.