Italy badly needs less regulation, more competition, lower taxes and less public spending.
The economy badly needs less government interference, more room for private enterprise, and a stronger rule of law.
No one wants to just go ahead and advise a person to say either "I feel bad" or "I feel badly," much less to say both of them, because in so many cases the ailment is pure imaginary.
Their worsening state, coupled with the death of another Palestinian in detention on Saturday, fueled violence in which at least six Palestinian protesters were shot and badly wounded, less than a month before President Obama is due to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah.
That goes some way to explain why PepsiCo is doing so badly, albeit less so than Coke, and in spite of its investments in healthier products such as Tropicana orange juice and Quaker Oats breakfast cereals.But putting aside their currency-related woes and the shrinking market for carbonated drinks, many investors still see the two firms as smart investments.
That some of the nation's top health experts and a local hospital could miscalculate so badly is less a cause for finger-pointing than it is a measure of the newness of this bioterrorism threat and the lack of certainty over how to deal with it.
While Mr. Schröder's Social Democrats slightly increased their percentage of the vote over 1997, winning some 37.5percenttheireir coalition partners, the Greens, lost badly, getting less than 9percentt of their vote, a reflection of the battle the alternative party is having keeping its supporters now that it is in the federal government.
Even the models were behaving badly -- less dutiful mannequins and more petulant teenagers, hellbent on stomping to the end of the runway, turning, and high-tailing it out of the Grand Palais as fast as possible.
Out of the 29 books assessed, 14 scored very badly with less than 10 marks (22%).
In a recent paper Steven Kaplan, of the University of Chicago, finds that CEO pay has fallen in recent years and that, contrary to myth, CEOs who perform badly get paid less and are fired more often than successful ones.There is also a less bothersome explanation for CEO pay that is based on superstar economics.
