While about half of adults in Ohio and Florida say the state of their own personal finances is excellent or good, about half say it is not so good, or poor.
There was no pomp or circumstance to evaluating it: The winemaker would uncork the bottle, tilt the contents into his mouth, spit the wine onto the ground and give the verdict: Good enough to go into his blend, or not good enough.
In this third critique where the argument is proffered that outlawing sharia arbitrations will lead to outlawing all private religious arbitrations, the question that must be asked is whether there are any principled and prudential distinctions between sharia as a "bad thing" and other religious codes as a "good thing" (or if not a "good thing" at least as an "acceptable thing")?
Of course, just because a course is online does not mean it will be good, just as not every traditional lecture or classroom experience is good or bad.
If it's not good for bugs, it's probably not good for your family or your pets.
Just because the father has not been such a good person doesn't mean the children or grandchildren will not develop into pretty good citizens.
Of course, not every book blogger is good, just like not every mainstream media reviewer is good, or every author (traditionally published or otherwise).
And so young women often drift "unintentionally" into parenthood with men whom they believe are not good enough to marry or not ready for it.
Lately news-makers have been batting around the question of whether or not home ownership is good or bad for the housing market, the economy, and individuals.
Fear about losing status in the neighborhood, not being able to send your child to a good college or not being able to retire as early can build tension, she explains.
The quotes around problem in the previous sentence are a reminder that a temporary trade deficits or surpluses are not per se a good or bad thing.
How are you supposed to find out whether the products are good or not?
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And 87 percent of Democrats rated the economy as not good or poor, according to exit polls.
In theory, the ratings board should have no opinion on whether "Blue Valentine" is good or not.
The officials went to the monitor to review whether the shot was good or not and ruled it came just after.
Over the past few days, the issue of whether social business is inherently good or not has cropped up on Twitter discussions and around the blogosphere.
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"No matter how good I am or how good Kevin Youkilis is, there's not one person that can ever carry a team, " said Teixeira, a two-time All-Star first baseman.
At a time when almost no new golf courses are being built in the United States, any new opening would be newsworthy, whether the result is good or not.
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It stems from a perception that you are somehow breaking unspoken rules, are not meeting some perceived standard or are just not good enough for the task at hand.
Everyone has their own taste in music, but to decide if someone is any good or not based on the fact that you first saw them on a reality TV show rather than in a smoky back street club somewhere is just silly and shows a lack of real critical analysis.
"The debate about the plight of the lemurs and what should be done about them, and whether or not my idea was a good idea or bad idea was certainly an eye-opener to me and I suspect to all of us, " he said in a recent e-mail.
"The higher or lower fee is not a determinate of a good or bad manager, " Ghodsi says.
If a label does not have good physical distribution, or if its distributors are not active in digital distribution, it must determine whether or not to use one or more aggregators (digital distributors).
But the bad news for savers does not seem to translate into good news for borrowers - or not lately, at least.
Limiting beliefs, such as 'I'm not smart enough' or 'I'm not good at math, ' can keep people from attempting more complex challenges.
But when the conduct does not involve denial of a good or service but distortion of information, forced access is not the answer.
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And the question in the case today was whether prosecutors really had another good reason or not.
The problem is that no-one can agree whether small schools offer a good education or not.
It just matters about whether you have a really good business or not that is acquired.
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