The economy, victimized by years of mismanagement and burdened by debt, was paralyzed, dependent on the copper mines that earned badly-needed hard currency for state coffers.
Seymour's respect and affection for Mary Shelley, attractively evident throughout, are especially conspicuous in these final sections of her book, as she sets out to chart Mary's struggle to earn badly needed money for herself, her stolid and disappointing son, and her distinguished but perpetually indigent father in the only way available to her: through her writing.
Wisely, he starts tutoring kids with ADD, something he'd trained for earlier to earn badly needed cash to finance his yoga excursions.
I contacted Laurie Syms, co-director of Rachel's Network, to ask how both women and men could earn some badly needed extra-credit points from Mother Earth.
As closely linked to the Scouts as the woggle and the khaki shorts, badges have long been worn with pride, conscientiously earned and, usually, badly sewn on.
Joaquin Benoit is on for Sanchez, who did not pitch badly – two earned runs over seven innings with eight strikeouts.
He did not demur even when asked to fix watches, although that enterprise did spectacularly badly, and earned him more kicks than kudos, for no watch he took apart ever kept time again.
So far, those firms have not done badly, earning on average 28% of their revenues in emerging markets.
And here Britain's prime minister comes off badly, earning only 8% of what he could expect heading a big company like BP or Unilever.
Detroit could earn itself some badly needed respect and trust if it announced that from now on it will devote its managerial energies to the task of making much cleaner, high-mileage cars — rather than fighting sensible and essential efforts to control the spread of greenhouse gases.
In addition to the costly sanctions, the North has lost badly needed hard currency earned by its workers at the Kaesong complex.
