Business was lousy and the financial markets had slammed the door on Internet ventures.
In (yet another) lousy year for music sales, country fans are still heading to the cash registers.
But currencies tend to be zero-sum games over time, and gold, arguably, is a lousy store of wealth.
The result has been lousy operating earnings for property owners and thus falling prices.
Other Investor Team members agreed that recent OPEC cuts weren't enough to combat the lousy economy.
It goes without saying that a joke that needs to be explained is a lousy joke.
But the photos that a phone can take are generally of a lousy quality.
Many countries also do a lousy job in enforcing contracts and property rights, notes the report.
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Just imagine how a smooth-talking Streeter could explain away a lousy year in other fields.
The event was a lousy one, with Nebraska a sorry matchup with Miami of Florida.
Cheap DRAMs forced Intel out of this lousy commodity business and into high-margin microprocessors.
High inflation of 7 percent led to high interest rates and a lousy equity market.
So what does this say about bad-faith attempts to sell lousy investments through a smoke screen?
The economic climate, especially in London, is lousy, and Waratek CTO John Matthew Holt is pleased.
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And when the fiscal reckoning comes it will be a lousy-tasting pill to swallow.
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Sure, hardware and software manufacturers sometimes make lousy products and for that we suffer.
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Big geostationary satellites, orbiting 26, 000 miles above the sky, are a lousy two-way synchronous Internet medium.
"I wasn't an expert at this stuff, but I knew that was lousy, " he says.
But a contract is a contract, even one signed by a lousy human being.
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Nevertheless, several executives have made a mint even though their firms' track records have been lousy.
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The flip side of this is that lousy customer service is a lost opportunity.
The flip side of this is that it will remain a lousy environment for savers.
He starred in bad action movies, mediocre dramas, lousy comedies, and bloated Titanic wannabes.
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But he failed to sort out Jaguar's weak product range or Land Rover's lousy factories.
Most job seekers think November and December are lousy months to look for work.
The third episode is lousy (and devolves into lectures that are chopped into montages).
Seven out of 10 is sublime for a baseball slugger but lousy for a free-throw shooter.
Lousy companies that are limping along on subsidies will slow the growth of the industry.
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The number is lousy, and its company in previous quarters is no great shakes either.
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Banks, like other companies, can no longer deliver lousy returns and expect to keep their shareholders.
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