His government then adopted a flat-rate income tax, ending Russia's days as an economic basket case.
Japan may be a basket case, but the Nikkei Index is trading at its book value!
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Underneath the gloss of good feeling, Murray conveys the selfishness within his basket case.
Europe is a total basket case, with too much production capacity and an allout price war.
Paul Krugman has taken another look at the Japanese economy and pronounces it no basket case.
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With a pivotal constitutional referendum coming up Saturday, Egypt seems to be an economic basket case.
Nor can Pakistan afford this long-running sore since the country is an economic and political basket case.
So why is the Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula area (pop. 372, 000) such a basket case?
Should he run and win, he will inherit an economic basket case.
His new one, "Basket Case, " is due in January, and this time he takes on the hand that feeds him -- corporate media.
Tokyo-based foreign correspondents have instead promoted approved themes, notably the myth that Japan has become the basket case of the industrial world.
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?
In power for decades, he has been sharply criticized for rights abuses and turning the nation from a breadbasket into a financial basket case.
Almost everywhere you look in the details of the Japan story you find that the basket case story could not be further from the truth.
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NPLs account for an enormous 264 percent of tier 1 capital a level so high that not even basket case Greece, at 217 percent, can compare.
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Africa is no longer a basket case but a business case.
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Showtime is a brilliant basket case who overdoes it at parties.
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.
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.
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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Thirty years ago, Brazil was a financial basket 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.
Western Europe is a complete basket case.
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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.
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