The markets have indeed judged the IMF austerity prescriptions of high taxes and devalued currencies: thumbs-down.
The result will probably be a thumbs-down for Chinese debt even, perhaps, for the government's sovereign borrowing.
They were surprised when the FDA staff and the agency's outside advisers gave it a thumbs-down in September.
Fifth Third Bancorp gets the thumbs-down from Bradley Vander Ploeg at Raymond James and Gary Townsend at Friedman Billings Ramsey.
Chris Evans scooped the lion's share of the thumbs-down votes for the Worst Looking Celebrity with 71% of readers voting for him.
Nor was he taking any chances on a thumbs-down from New Yorkers.
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Any referendum, which Mr Blair will insist on holding, will face the problems of a low voter turn-out and a potential thumbs-down.
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But as far as him being a personable guy, a likable guy, I think he probably overall gets a thumbs-down on that one.
Analysts gave a thumbs-down, calling the deal an expensive vanity purchase that would crush Hindalco under the mountain of debt it would need to acquire Novelis.
But two years after it launched, a parliamentary committee has given a thumbs-down to the setting up of a statutory National Identification Authority to bolster the scheme.
It means candidates will be able to risk defeat in a constituency in the hope that the top-up list will ensure they get elected despite the thumbs-down from voters.
The Edinburgh club are launching a re-modelled maroon outfit with a white v-neck, but a proposed second kit in either sky blue or yellow has been given the thumbs-down by the Jambos support.
The overall message, though, was an overwhelming thumbs-down.
The decision was a victory for the Free Enterprise Fund, which argued such agencies were too far removed from the will of voters, who give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on presidential policy every four years.
Now, an incipient media meme not yet common in Sports Illustrated, at least depicts football fans like ancient Romans, turning our thumbs down on our logo-splattered sacrificial gladiators, unable to keep our blood lust from consuming our compassion and good sense.
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In the aftermath people talked a lot about sportsmanship and class, about the thumbs-up that Cabrera gave to Scott walking down the fairway of the second playoff hole after Scott had matched Cabrera's skillful approach.
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Our experts gave thumbs down to a new car buyer tax break--an idea that has been proposed by some in Congress and in the auto industry.
As a possible solution, experts have long pined for more temporary facilities that could serve the purpose of the games just fine, only to be given the thumbs down by an International Olympic Committee that equates world-class games with world-class facilities.
Featuring songs like It's Hard To Hitch Down Life's Highway With No Thumbs, it is not for the faint-hearted and sidesteps political correctness.
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