But the Cubs, who have a $135 million payroll, are not particularly good, either, owning a 64-62 record that, while acceptable in some precincts, is most certainly not on the North Side, where big things — yup, that big, curses be damned — were expected after they rolled to a National League-best 97 wins last season.
"Complacency is the biggest curse to any brand or company," he said.
The sport's biggest curse is finally over and how Hull will celebrate that in the coming days and weeks.
Megan Williams hired a sign teacher who moved in with the family after her son, Jacob, was born deaf and she learnt that the biggest curse of deafness is illiteracy.
These are an even bigger curse than carbon dioxide as far as damaging greenhouse gases are concerned.That is why work on using hydrogen as a fuel for a modified internal-combustion engine has been more or less abandoned, even though getting such a power unit into production was considered cheaper than any of the clean alternatives.
Regarding corruption, numerous financial scandals involving government ministers and allegations of billions going missing from public coffers in recent years made it difficult for Jonathan to convince Nigerians that he was serious about tackling what is widely regarded as the country's biggest curse.
"In our industry, the biggest curse is the back-of-the-envelope guy," he said, referring to less-than-thorough contractors who sketch out a sprinkler layout for a homeowner on any handy scrap of paper and then provide an estimate that may or may not accurately reflect the cost.
"It was made to fail, certainly, but Oslo's biggest curse is that is still exists.
One of the biggest blessings and biggest curses of how we listen to music today is that we can avoid so much of it.
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