Usually, this problem is tackled by either worst-case optimization [12 27] or stochastic optimization [24, 28].
Anyway, the OECD is either the worst or the second-worst offender — the BIS gives it a run for the (tight) money; back in 2010 it was among the most eager pushers of fiscal austerity, even as it also called for a sharp rise in policy interest rates.
You take any chronic disease or condition — heart disease, cancer, smoking, obesity, you name it — and we're either the worst or close to the worst".
Depending on which index you look at, that crash was either the worst in a generation or the worst since 1929.
"It's either the worst time to be starting something like this or the best time," Mr. Morris said.
Elizabeth Endicott asked herself on that day in September, 1911, which ever afterward she considered to be either the worst or the best day of her life.
Buying a fund in the best-performing sector of the previous year earns a higher average return over the next year than either the worst or the median performer.
In a world of unpredictable currencies, riven by fears of massive inflation and with enormous doubts about the true value of many other financial instruments, gold becomes an attractive option.Waiting for normalityYet at some point either the worst fears of the gold bugs must be realised in which case, heaven help us or the world will become a less nervous place.
Depending on who you ask, the millennium bug is either the worst crisis ever to confront the world's information infrastructure, or just another nasty software error, to be fixed much like those that have plagued computers since their birth.Consultancies, many of them selling millennium-bug services, tend unsurprisingly to line up with the messengers of doom.
These are the people that get either the worst deals or no deal at all.
