Some of the hazards of a no deal might transpire to be less terrible than forecast.
"It's another big shift – to tell people, 'Look, stop going around in cars.' In this city, it's less terrible, but try to do this in Milan.
Still, Nell Minow, a shareholder advocate at GMI Ratings, said the new approach was "far from perfect, or even good, but it's less terrible than it used to be".
Nell Minow, a shareholder advocate at GMI Ratings, said the new approach was "far from perfect, or even good, but it's less terrible than it used to be".
But even if it is in some measure imposed, and so qualifies for the vile term of ethnic cleansing, it may be less terrible than ethnic slaughter, or genocide.
If the company is truly making an effort to be less terrible at explaining its decisions — and we're skeptical about that too — this is pretty inauspicious start.
Turning this gloomy outcast on its head, things are less terrible elsewhere.
Some critics also argue that Warren will need to recalibrate her message so that it is less about the terrible things that have befallen the middle class and more about how voters can empower themselves.
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
While that is not terrible, it is less than the 9.2 percent at which Morningstar estimates G.E.'s weighted average cost of capital.
