When Procter & Gamble and other large companies sued Bankers Trust over losses they sustained on derivatives trades gone bad, many observers argued they didn't have much of a case.
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But, of course, all those other critics, though rarely dressed up in wigs and makeup (or dressed at all, for that matter), are notoriously irascible, tendentious, bad-tempered observers who like nothing more than settling old scores, indulging eccentric prejudices, and using someone else's table or text as an occasion to riff on their own obsessions.
Some delegates complained of bad planning, and observers described an atmosphere bordering on anarchy.
Although the Taliban try to protect themselves from bad publicity, some observers see the case as a purely domestic dispute mixed up with a particularly ugly version of justice that has been meted out in rural Afghanistan for centuries.
Greenpeace has dubbed the current version of the protocol "Kyoto Lite," but that's not all bad, say some observers.
Given the abject failures of most U.S. tech companies in China, Uber's deal with Didi doesn't look bad to some observers.
Given the abject failures of most U.S. tech companies in China, Uber's deal with Didi doesn't look bad to some observers.
Of course not all children spend all their time indoors, nor is technology inherently bad; nevertheless, some observers are voicing distinctly practical concerns.
Score: 7/10 Cirio (400g): 95p "Not bad actually cooked," observered Dino "but over-pasteurised".
