Safe from poor-quality credit, Visa is nevertheless highly dependent on the quantity of spending.
Gone are the days of repeating yourself over and over and listening to poor-quality tiny speakers.
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Too much is being spent on badly targeted social-security schemes and on poor-quality public services.
Chinese standards have been under scrutiny after a number of scandals involving poor-quality or fake drugs and food.
But a few short years later Atari's machine, the 2600, was history, buried under a rash of poor-quality games.
The poor-quality video of the murder was preceded by a caption announcing that al-Zarqawi would carry out the killing.
Pitfalls often include using poor-quality gin, artificial lemon juice and the wrong kind of olives, particularly those soaked in brine.
But they often rely on RF signals from wi-fi access points or custom infrastructure, poor-quality GPS signals or expensive, high-quality sensors.
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Still, in this model, a poor-quality piece of content that comes out of one bit of the machine can damage other outlets.
Fruit farmers complain that unscrupulous agents have damaged the reputation of their export-oriented industry by dumping poor-quality apples, pears and peaches on the European markets.
BBH, for example, has nearly finished a new malting plant, the largest in Russia, freeing it from the choice between poor-quality Russian supplies or expensive imports.
All were arrested on initial charges, which include causing death and criminal conspiracy as they knowingly allowed poor-quality work, said Mr. Ballal, who didn't provide further details.
Surrounded by Serbian territory and land mines, and only linked to Bosnia by a long and poor-quality road, Gorazde stands on its own, unfairly forgotten by its fellow countrymen.
Approximately half of the city's 13m population (part of a 20m conurbation) lives in the slums areas of unregulated, poor-quality structures, usually built of mud or brick and asbestos sheets, with no sanitation.
The problem at present, he says, is that North Korean farmers plant too many poor-quality seeds in a desperate attempt to boost crops, and do so in soil that is becoming increasingly less fertile.
The hazard here is that GM might be tempted to load up the bank with poor-quality loans to shaky dealers in an effort to pump up vehicles sales, says Sean Egan, managing director of Egan-Jones Ratings.
On tiny plots, and often poor-quality soil, without modern equipment or farming methods, and sometimes beset by land disputes, many peasant farmers struggle to feed their family and grow just a little extra to sell in the village market.
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Instead, it appears they were slapping bogus ratings on poor-quality, high-risk mortgage bonds just to ensure they got their fees, ignoring the fact that real people were counting on them to give an independent view of the safety of the investments.
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"We believe this technology will, in the long term, be able to provide cheaper and more sustainable heating, which could be an answer to fuel poverty issues prevalent in many areas of Glasgow, particularly those with a mining past and a legacy of poor-quality housing and high unemployment, " he said.
Universities have been worried that charging too little will make them look like poor quality - and that charging too much will put off potential applicants.
"What our unique proprietary technology is able to do is take the poor quality on-camera audio from fan videos, and we analyse that and can see the patterns, even though it's very weak and distorted, " explains Cathal Furey, co-founder of the firm, 45sound.
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This immunity from the slings-and-arrows of poor power quality in the residential sector is unlikely to last long.
The wrong choice can result in considerable extra expense, or in users being dissatisfied with poor quality and lack-luster performance.
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The poor quality of life for heart-failure patients, leading up to death, can also be devastating, he says.
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To say that for-profits are evil or poor quality misses the point because quality is defined by what a customer will pay someone to do.
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They are still gun-shy about borrowers with poor credit quality and weak assets, but they are very intent on lending to strong borrowers with good properties as collateral.
"When you've got care homes that chronically are not delivering - the care quality is poor and the quality of life of those people is appalling, then we clearly need urgent and robust action, " he said.
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The All Blacks next play England, who saw off Argentina 16-9 at Twickenham in a poor quality match in difficult conditions.
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