In December, the city published a report on Comcast's offerings in which the most common words among subscribers who were surveyed about their customer experience were "terrible", "better", "poor", "horrible", "awful", "lacking", "bad" and "horrendous".
Moreover, that deficit would have been even higher but for inflated receipts from ebullient property markets and financial firms.Mr Darling was able to announce a somewhat improved forecast for this year's borrowing but only to the extent that terrible is better than horrendous.
He risked his life knowingly, so the rest of us could understand a terrible war better - so that the rest of us could read more, think more, and understand more about Syria.
From shelter operations and disaster intake to mucking and gutting homes to coordinating more than 30,000 volunteers, our members proudly served to make a terrible situation better in any way they could.
For as much as having a partner can make all kinds of terrible situations better, I couldn't get past the idea that I should be doing something more "useful" with my time than entertaining the thought of a relationship.
By Saturday night, I looked terrible but felt better.
Shouldn't the question be, simply: Will a military strike against Syria make the terrible situation there better?
In the language of prize-fighting, they are going to take a terrible licking and better be ready to throw in the towel.
For the camp's residents, even the terrible conditions are better than the risk of staying in the Dominican Republic [see footnote].
His best album, from 2003, is "Harmful if Swallowed," and it included jokes about working at Burger King, which in an attempt to make a terrible job sound better he referred to as "the BK Lounge".
Henry Grunwald, the former ambassador to Austria and a former editor-in-chief at Time Inc., noted that Winston Churchill's maxim about democracy applied to marriage too: "It's a terrible system, but better than anything else we have".
