And, precisely because it is such a restricted and secretive market, it is bad at price-setting.
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Worse, the agency has become a bureaucratic behemoth that is bad at helping job-seekers in today's market.
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David Abel, the chairman of Los Angeles County's Economy and Efficiency Commission, says the mayor is bad at motivating his troops.
And unlike its member states the EU as a union is bad at realpolitik, being a slow-moving bureaucracy based on rules and legal texts.
Anyone who says differently does not understand our explicit international commitments under the Copenhagen Accord, the Cancun Agreements - or, alternatively, is bad at maths.
The city is bad at attracting people with an advanced business education, leaving its firms at a disadvantage when it comes to marketing and financial engineering.
Black Mask is a character whose true identity is Roman Sionis, a wealthy businessman who hates Bruce Wayne, and who is bad at legitimate business but has a knack for criminal business and who is obsessed with destroying Bruce Wayne.
The situation is particularly bad at Komercni, the largest bank, which is 49% state-owned.
One reason is that Mexico is still bad at educating its least favoured children.
It makes collaboration on projects vastly easier, and that's something the government is notoriously bad at.
The awkward squad tends to despise conventional diplomacy and public relations, and is therefore bad at them.
He is also bad at the crucial job of building bridges with the leaders of Europe's governments.
So far we can conclude that Google is pretty bad at naming things.
Congress is notoriously bad at paying for things (in case you haven't noticed), especially when it comes to raising taxes.
But if it is that bad at suggesting matches for me, I shudder at what assumptions they are making based on my data.
Then there's governing, which the president is exceedingly bad at.
Solyndra is a great example that Government is really bad at picking winners and losers, and the market will always call out bad products such as high carbon producers, given time.
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Rothifying old money is a bad idea at the same time that selecting Roth for new contributions is a good idea.
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Have you ever wondered why Congress is so spectacularly bad at solving problems?
Not only is government uniquely bad at funding the sorts of outlays that minimize suffering the sensitivity to suffering, and the appetite for its minimization, seems to have no limit in democratic times.
This correspondent's verdict is: not bad at all.
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It is not all bad, at least for consumers Scotland's state-owned water is grossly inefficient and now overpriced.
Part of him must hope that he is at least getting all the bad news over with at once.
Any seasoned investor knows that not making bad investments is at least as important as making good ones.
But the country is at a bad pass, things might get worse, and the political system is effectively paralyzed.
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But conventionally episodic TV drama is by no means bad at doing this.
Too bad it is not at least 6 times as much, as Paul Ryan will propose in his 2014 budget coming out next month.
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