So why is the Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula area (pop. 372, 000) such a basket case?
Africa is no longer a basket case but a business case.
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"He was a basket case and Kenny was concerned he would embarrass himself on stage, or worse yet -- get hurt, " production director John "Bugsy" Houghdahl wrote to AEG Live top execs Randy Phillips and Paul Gongaware.
There is Ben Affleck the famous actor and director, and there is less-well-known side of the man: a thoughtful, committed advocate for change in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a war-torn, long-misruled nation that many have written off as a basket case.
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These banks have a high share of mortgage lending and are heavily exposed to commercial property and construction lending - which is what has done for them, because Spain's housing market is weak and becoming weaker, and its commercial property sector is a basket case.
If the U.S. economy continues to slow into the first quarter of 2013, and if Europe remains a basket case next year, then oil demand will be stable and price rises will largely depend on Asian demand and the usual Middle Eastern drama pitting Tel Aviv against Tehran.
You do wonder what other horrors this will bring out of the woodwork in those banks which are still trying to work out how to sell half their business and avoid becoming a basket case, let alone changing systems, credit procedures and pricing models that are needed under Basel II.
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We're not in some kind of economic nightmare situation, we're not Greece, we don't have a basket-case economy.
The company was called a basket-case, spread too thin, terrible employee morale, unfocused.
Probably, what had happened is that Apple had become such a basket-case that it simply decoupled from the stockmarket altogether.
On just about every count, the task-force sees Chrysler as a basket-case.
But the stronger Japanese firms do not want to sell out to foreigners, and foreigners do not want to risk buying a basket-case.
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Thirty years ago, Brazil was a financial basket case.
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As the Center reported that month, (1) a major IMF-led study commissioned by the G-7 nations at last year's Houston economic summit revealed that the Soviet Union was a basket-case economically and would remain so in the absence of wholesale structural reforms.
Although it has a few basket-case countries, it also has (in Scandinavia and Germany, for instance) some of the world's strongest and most competitive economies.
The U.S. in 1981--83 went from a high-inflation, high-tax economic basket case to a much stronger competitor, able once again to attract capital from locals and foreigners.
General Motors and Ford Motor shares tend to trade in tandem, even though we all know GM is the basket case that needed a federal bailout, while Ford sailed through the economic crisis without any taxpayer assistance.
His government then adopted a flat-rate income tax, ending Russia's days as an economic basket case.
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