For good or ill, the world has got used to looking towards America for leadership in economic policy.
These are the films that will, for good or ill, dominate world cinema conversation in the coming 12 months.
In "Coming Out Under Fire" (1994, 72 minutes), those classified as mentally ill during World War II included "pathological liars, swindlers, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, alcoholic persons and homosexual persons".
The ill-starred world tour in 2006 he now calls "horrible".
Cole looks a different man from the frowning, subdued figure he cut during England's ill-fated World Cup campaign.
In a woeful political miscalculation, the prime minister flew home from an ill-timed world summit meeting in sunny Guadeloupe to face Britain's ravening news media.
A few St George's flags, relics of England's ill-fated World Cup run, fly from windows even in Lodge Lane, where the bombers met to plan their terror.
Survival in an unstructured, unmanaged, ill-defined world is possible, but you'll have to adjust your mindset to get through graduate school.
No other could have pulled in the same publicity or glamour for London's successful Olympic campaign or even England's ill-fated World Cup bid.
David Beckham provided just one notable example when he visited in 2010 on behalf of England's ill-fated World Cup 2018 campaign.
And there was the threat that some ill-defined world catastrophe was always knocking at our door in 2009.
