After getting a doctorate in psychology from Loyola University in 1971, Linehan wanted to devote her career to helping the most miserable people in the world.

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Given the miserable state of the world economy, protectionist pressures have been remarkably quiescent.

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The former Ferrari driver has endured a miserable start to the 2012 season, collecting just two world championship points and retiring from five of the first seven races.

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England are the only one of eight major international sides not to have won an ICC tournament - a miserable run dating back to the first World Cup in 1975.

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The Frankfurter Rundschau said the German performance was "miserable" and considered it the "worst by the Germans in this World Cup".

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Azteca is one of the world's most imposing venues and, like just about everybody else, the Americans have a miserable track record there.

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