However, the financial sector appears to be in much better shape entering 2011 than 2010.
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It is in much better shape to withstand the blow, thanks to prudent macroeconomic policy.
Wasps are in much better shape and can call on an almost complete first choice selection.
But Volkswagen is in much better shape, and is even considering buying Porsche.
The country is in much better shape than politicians and a boatload of economists dare contemplate.
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Bank Indonesia insists that local banks are in much better shape than they were seven years ago.
Folks with funds in a tax haven will be in much better shape if, or when, that happens.
"If you allowed automakers to make what they're good at they'd be in much better shape, " Johnson says.
The group is in much better shape today than it was in January 2005 when Mr Kleinfeld took over.
LA's riot zone is still in much better shape than most American ghettoes.
In macroeconomic terms these economies are in much better shape than in 1997.
Unlike many of the big carriers, cut-price operators in Europe and America have survived the downturn in much better shape.
"He was in much better shape than most people thought, " the source said, but had serious wounds to his throat and leg.
Now that the global economy is growing again, shippers are in much better shape and could be good buys for bold investors.
The phone and broadband company Talk Talk said the revised bill was "in much better shape" but still contained "many draconian proposals".
Travelers and Chubb, with more conservative portfolios, emerged in much better shape.
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Had Nixon made a more responsible decision, the initial pain might have been worse, but we would have ended the decade in much better shape.
Canada - whose economy is about two-thirds the size of the UK's - came through the 2008-9 financial crisis in much better shape than the UK's.
But Colgate is looking like a better short-term capital appreciation play based on the charts appearing to be in much better shape because the stock has lagged the broader advance.
The eastern block contains some countries in desperate trouble, like Hungary or Latvia, he noted, but also many others, like Poland, Slovakia or the Czech Republic, which are in much better shape.
In my neighbourhood of Asia, the financial crisis of 1997-1998 brought tremendous pain to many Asian countries, but through austerity and sweeping economic reforms, they recovered relatively quickly and in much better shape.
"She is definitely on for a personal best, in the last couple of meetings she has shown she is in much better shape than she was last year, " added Sotherton, who is out for the rest of the season with a back injury.
These risks haven't totally gone away, but the major emerging markets are in much better macroeconomic shape than they have been in a very long time.
Hefty construction exposure heading into the recession of 2008 was an eye opener for management (as was the case at many industrials), and IR exited the crisis in much better financial shape than it entered it in.
The Canadian economy and Canada's banks weathered the great financial storm of 2007-08 in better shape than pretty much every other major developed economy, with the possible exception of Australia.
"It's much better in my view to step forward to shape that debate, to shape the future in Europe, " he said.
GM, which has done a much better job than Ford of running its foreign operations, is in reasonable shape.
Britain and America, where much more of the burden of retirement saving falls on the private sector, seemed to be in better shape than continental Europe until the collapse of the stockmarket bubble.
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