PAGE A17 PAUL KRUGMAN By huge margins, Americans think the economy is in lousy shape -- and they blame President Bush.
America's highways and bridges are in lousy shape; compared to other advanced economies, America's public transit, broadly speaking, stinks.
In general, we - meaning we the people of the internet, not we the Cartoon Lounge - are a tad overweight, think the U.S. economy is in lousy shape, and can't look away from the TV if CSI is on.
Also, I'm a tad overweight, I think the Canadian economy is in lousy shape, and I've been known to blow an entire Saturday watching a CSI marathon on Spike.
So the borrower will end up with a property that's in lousy shape, often with significant structural defects, and the buyer will have an unaffordable mortgage that covers far more than the value of the property".
Most are in lousy shape when it takes ownership.
Macon, who said he is in "lousy" physical shape for 67, said he just "goes out there and puts one foot in front of the other" and doesn't attempt speed records.
"What we're learning is that a lot of the recent commentary about the state of the Russian military is pretty accurate, and that is that it is in pretty lousy shape," said Mark N. Kramer, a senior fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University.
By the summer of 1999 MSN was in such lousy shape that Microsoft's Steve Ballmer transferred his office from the main campus to MSN's site a couple of miles away.
