Most of that deficit — more than $21 billion — reflected write-downs of deferred tax assets, rather than ailing mortgages.
In short, the best that can happen is that Russia staggers on to the next elections parliamentary ones in December, a presidential one by June 2000 without a complete collapse, rather like its ailing neighbour, Ukraine.
A number of APIs, namely those from Digg, GeoNames, Gowalla, Posterous and Eventful performed rather poorly, but ailing Myspace takes the cake in terms of unreliability.
Since then he has held numerous corporate directorships and, uncharacteristically, appeared in an ad campaign for Chrysler (reportedly to help the ailing firm, rather than for the cash).
It was a pure contract dump for Sacramento, who announced that Jason Terry would rehab his ailing knee rather than suiting up for the Kings.
In the next round, the choices are similar, but this time, perhaps because the approach is described as "quiet support" for ailing banks, rather than a "cover-up," the students opt for discretion.
It is a conviction rooted so deeply in church dogma that dozens of members have endured criminal prosecution rather than surrender an ailing person to what they see as the quackery of medical science.
A number of hard-liners have already signaled that they will fight the new press law, saying the Parliament should deal with the ailing economy rather than issues of political and press freedom.
If the EU has a future as the driver of European integration, it has to reform its structures, shelve its neoliberal myopia, rediscover its social mission, stabilise its dysfunctional currency, and genuinely assist, rather than punish, its ailing member states.
The second place contestant was a cheesy magician who made a rather tasteless joke about ailing basketball icon Magic Johnson.
