The French version of "eurozone governance lite" would, at worst, be an amended version of the present, can-kicking muddle.
How did we get here, how bad could it get, and how can the worst be avoided?
After a number of cash calls and asset write-downs could the worst be over for Britain's banks?
Dozens of state benefits are pegged to the RPI, but officials have promised that handouts such as jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit will at worst be frozen.
"Either he's badly hurt but hell live, and at best even get thoroughly well, and at worst be a helpless cripple or an invalid or his mind impaired".
First, the de facto default increased the riskiness of emerging sovereign debt in the eyes of investors, who had until then assumed that they would at worst be rescheduled and that the IMF would almost always bail out a government.
The current assistant manager appears to understand that after he took to the touchline in what can, at best, be an attempt to show his management skills and at worst be a clear undermining of Van Gaal.
And as central banks begin to react vigorously, investors are taking fright.When 2008 started, most investors assumed that the lingering effects of the credit crunch would allow interest rates to fall, or at worst be kept on hold.
In the squabble over who gets screwed the worst — be it sovereign-debt holders, Greek pensioners, German taxpayers, Spanish banks, or Italian self-determinists — whatever constituency gets its way will have to contend with Pyrrhic consequences.
Now, while Compton astonishes his former team-mates by prancing around in his underwear on an American entertainment programme, it is Carberry who will at worst be on standby for any further recurrences of Cook's back complaint.
"What's the wisdom of the ages," Stephens asked, "when a mayor wants to erase the stain of mishandling last winter's snowstorms by forcibly relocating people from his zone of responsibility to places that are somebody else's zone of responsibility?" Should those whose job it is to prepare for the worst be punished because the worst didn't happen?
