Progress on greater market access for the least developed countries has been disappointing so far.
The restructuring story in Japan has been disappointing because it has been too slow.
Past experience with zero-based budgeting, both in Britain and in America, has been disappointing.
That spare capacity has all but disappeared, largely because production outside OPEC has been disappointing.
The catalyst yesterday was news of a significant integration Facebook, which has been disappointing with another downgrade Wednesday.
But productivity growth has been disappointing, partly because so much of the economy is in the public sector.
But that, too, has been disappointing in recent months, constrained by weak job creation and paltry wage increases.
Here in Europe, ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families has been disappointing.
Britain's growth rate has been disappointing, he says, because its labour and capital markets do not work as well as they should.
"My performance in the last five or six weeks has been disappointing but I don't profess to be the most consistent player in the world, " he said.
Gaborik has been disappointing this season, his fourth with the Rangers, as he has only nine goals and 19 points in 35 games while shuttling between various lines.
However, the take-up, especially of personal plans, has been disappointing.
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The response of export volumes has been disappointing until now.
Sources tell me they were encouraged to go by the other non-executives, against the background of concerns from shareholders that the performance of the huge drug company has been disappointing.
"To be frank, gum has been disappointing for quite some time and it is taking us longer to change the trajectory than we anticipated, " Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld said.
John Kerry's rhetoric on trade has been disappointing.
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What we have seen in the past couple of weeks has been very disappointing.
Despite Thursday's 51-38 win over Coventry, it has been a disappointing season for the Panthers.
He also concedes that there has been some disappointing news about Internet firms.
So far, Crusoe has been slightly disappointing in testing, although that may partly be because of the novelty of its design.
Given the fall in the pound of about 25% in its trade-weighted value from mid-2007, Britain's trading performance has been rather disappointing.
That is why the pace of structural reform has been so disappointing.
In lesser corrections the degree of safety promised for high dividend paying stocks has been equally disappointing for those who accepted the theory.
"The performance of the stock has obviously been disappointing, " said Zuckerberg.
In two respects, the reward from openness has indeed been disappointing.
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