Figure the deficits that result from highly paid government workers can be financed, but unseen are the higher labor costs born by private employers (not to mention the companies that never form) thanks to deep-pocketed governments competing for finite labor, and worse than that, what the economy loses for potentially talented individuals toiling in government their whole lives over creating the next Microsoft or Intel.
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They are indeed more risky because their business quality and financial strength are much worse than that of Berkshire and Wells.
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Its GDP grew at a sickly 0.4% annualized rate in the 2nd quarter, down from its 4.4% pace in the 1st quarter, and significantly worse than forecasts that its growth would slow significantly, but only to 2.3%.
In a research note published Tuesday, Deutsche Bank analyst Mike Mayo also lowered his earnings estimates for Bear in fiscal 2008 and 2009, saying he thinks write-downs are likely to be worse than expected and that fundamentals will weaken somewhat.
"I'm confident that somebody will be worse than me, and I'm really confident that people will be better than me, " he says, laughing.
And perhaps that would be a very pointed object lesson for voters in Greece and Spain and Portugal that default and exit is even worse than the austerity the EU is insisting on.
"The other unusual thing about this year is that foreign stocks tended to do a bit worse than domestic markets, and that's a kind of reversal of a trend we've seen for most of this decade, " he said.
"We hope it is nothing worse than that and there is no break or ligament damage but we will only know when we get the results back from the hospital, " said the former Burnley manager.
Yet there is much to suggest that Germany will fare worse than most in the slump and that its pain will be felt most acutely by its famed Mittelstand, the thousands of family-owned small and medium-sized firms that are the backbone of its economy.
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Many voters see them less as a solution than as part of Japan's problem, and their standing in opinion polls is even worse than that of the LDP.
But one commenter on the blog post thought it was even worse than that, and suggested that the Secret Service be called.
Poor sales of key drugs and worse than expected generic competition will mean that revenue will dip, instead of growing in the single digits.
Bernstein said in a report that efficacy trends "were weak" and noted "potentially worrisome safety findings that seemed marginally worse than we expected", including cerebral bleeds.
After some pretty bad Batman movie licensed games (and a Catwoman game that was actually worse than the film), Warner Bros.
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Unemployment rates in both Greece and Spain are as bad or worse than anything that the United States had in the Great Depression for example.
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And that change could do worse than emulate the Europeans.
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The national poll also found that 37% named cancer as their most feared disease, despite the fact that the survival rate for heart failure is worse than that of breast and prostate cancer.
However, if investors glean information that things are worse than expected in Europe, especially with business and consumer spending falling off, that changes the trajectory of everything.
Austin Frakt responds with what has now become a familiar refrain at his blog: He dismisses studies showing that Medicaid enrollees do worse than the uninsured, touts studies that show the reverse and claims that new Medicaid enrollees are going to get more care than otherwise.
That and we've also been told that the Samsung i600 has worse battery life than a Motorola phone.
And to my mind, that makes it worse than a weak reed on which to rely.
Clearly, this has served him well, and one can do worse than to pursue the trends that he identifies.
"It's been 10 months since the last worst air accident in Brazilian history, and now we've had an accident worse than that, " said David Fleischer, a political scientist at the University of Brasilia.
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And the effects would likely be much worse than the 1859 Carrington Event, a solar superstorm that wreaked havoc on telegraph lines and caused the aurora borealis to be visible as far south as Texas.
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But the majority believed then, and still believes, that a flawed count is worse than no count at all.
"There's only one thing worse than an overstressed Army and Marine Corps, and that's a defeated Army and Marine Corps, " he said.
Market researchers Gartner Inc. and IDC said last week that PC sales were worse than expected in the third quarter.
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And for an artist, that's far worse than public criticism.
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The Minister also argued that many new drugs do not have as many benefits as they claim in prolonging life and warned that patients can suffer side effects worse than the original symptoms.
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