While budget woes affect the approximately 160 D.M.V. offices in California, the situation in San Francisco is particularly bad, agency data indicate.
It also helps track thousands of news outlets and hundreds of blogs in an effort to help users understand what each outlet covers, so they don't reach out repeatedly to writers who have no interest in their product pitches (many bad PR agencies just blast releases to every Email address they have).
As if that weren't bad enough — agencies and NGOs working on the cleanup are now also being hit hard by the ongoing withdrawal, not of troops but of funds.
Though it's really not that surprising, given how bad the agency is at detecting potential threats.
No one should doubt that one can judge facts involving agency to be in some way bad if the agency brings about something bad; one might regret that the bad was brought about, or that the world was such that the bad's being brought about was the best of the options available.
R. Glenn Hubbard, chairman of the United States Council of Economic Advisers, gave a speech calling for the bad-loan agency to conduct "rapid purchases and equally rapid sales".
"Are they creating a warehousing company or a resolution company?" Wilbur Ross, a New York-based financier who specializes in turning around bankrupt companies, called for a one-year limit for the new bad-loan agency to dispose of assets.
Hours after Japan's Parliament gave final approval on Friday to a strengthened bad-loan agency, two visiting Bush administration officials urged Japan to use it for a quick attack on what they called the nation's main economic problem: a growing mountain of debt.
This wouldn't be so bad if the agencies had performed well in the financial crisis.
