Very unpromising, isn't it?

Mr. Mansour (Islamic Republic of Iran) said that the unpromising progress reports on actual operations indicated that the international community was planning and making decisions faster than it was taking action.

Generating the political will to get even some of this done will be no easy feat. But an honest look at the sorry state and unpromising trajectory of the global economy will, one hopes, help policymakers do what s needed.

The election, the fraud, and the violent crackdown on the subsequent protests revealed, and clearly widened, deep rifts inside the regime. This is the best reason why in most cases it is best to contest elections, even in unpromising circumstances.

More money from the EU budget now goes to nuclear research than to non nuclear research and development, and more infrastructure funding goes to carbon capture and storage (CCS) and conventional energy than to renewable energies. The forthcoming negotiations on the EU s 2014 2020 European budget are an opportunity to change direction and cut the funding for unpromising mega projectslike the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) effort in southern France.