Using 30 stocks which is what the Dow is is a lousy way to measure the performance of an economy.
Meteorologists continued to make forecasts, however lousy, but they measured how bad they were.
Bobby Douglass, by every statistical measure a lousy passer, ran for nearly a thousand yards during a fourteen-game season while starting for the Bears, in 1972.
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By any traditional measure, the Margarita Café is a pretty lousy restaurant.
The government's economic reformists, of whom he himself is the most distinguished, promote a liberalising measure that will help boost investment, fix India's lousy infrastructure and create jobs.
IF YOU measure the success of a pressure group by its ability to cram lousy policy through Congress, you might imagine that Big Oil or Wall Street would top the league: they are the lobbies most berated on the campaign trail.
India's legislators may be lousy at making decisions about economic reform, but they are remarkably decisive at passing more populist measures.
Mutandwa has maintained the blogging tradition; she writes about the lousy service in Zimbabwe's restaurants, the resilience of its people, and their willingness to embrace green measures – easy, since there is often no electricity.
[C3.] WB Admits to a Poor Season The WB television network admits to having a lousy season, attributing its woes on several new programs that misfired and faulty methodology by Nielsen in measuring ratings of younger viewers.
