Japan may be a basket case, but the Nikkei Index is trading at its book value!
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So why is the Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula area (pop. 372, 000) such a basket case?
How can one of the world's biggest economies be described by some as a basket case and by others as taking over the world?
Africa is no longer a basket case but a business case.
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Zimbabwe, ruled for almost 30 years by Robert Mugabe, has degenerated from a breadbasket of southern Africa into a basket case of violence, hunger and cholera.
Last week, Carter called Zimbabwe "a basket case" and blamed the cholera outbreak and other turmoil in the nation on "the poisonous effects" of the Mugabe regime.
"After almost three decades of governmental corruption, mismanagement and oppression, Zimbabwe has become a basket case, an embarrassment to the region and a focus of international concern and condemnation, " he said.
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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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Europe is a total basket case, with too much production capacity and an allout price war.
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.
We just have a basket-case political system that can't make the choices that at this point would not be very painful.
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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For years, European politicians have eyed Japan's economic mess with a lofty disdain a basket-case economy for which successive Japanese governments were clearly to blame.
In power for decades, he has been sharply criticized for rights abuses and turning the nation from a breadbasket into a financial basket case.
Showtime is a brilliant basket case who overdoes it at parties.
Thirty years ago, Brazil was a financial basket case.
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Western Europe is a complete 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.
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