And you start thinking, you know what, politics is just a dirty, nasty business and it's not worth getting involved.
Mixing religion and politics, of course, can be a nasty business.
This is a nasty business of price wars, backstabbing and patent disputes, where rivals seem to spend as much time in court as they do out in the field.
If he thinks there is a serious chance that he will have to raise taxes before the next election, he would do best to get the nasty business out of the way early.
Democrats we can call the Fomenting Unrest Party (FUP-Blue) as it goes about the nasty business of stirring up race resentment and inciting class warfare through identity politics and redistribution, all calculated to expand the administrative welfare-police state to shrink-wrap all of human existence.
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These days Scaroni is guiding Eni into the nasty Russian energy business--and is convinced he can survive unscorched.
Promise to pull out 9, 000 of the roughly 17, 000 now there before Christmas and fobbing the bulk of the nasty, protracted business of "nation-building" off onto multinational forces.
Lawsuits in California serve warning to companies that want to do business in nasty countries.
The top diamond jewelry brand in America, Harry Winston, had descended into chaos after its founder died in 1978 and sons Ronald and Bruce engaged in a nasty legal battle that crippled the business.
So far it looks as if Myanmar's neighbours are simply looking for excuses to let them return to doing business as usual with its nasty regime, as soon as all the fuss has died down.
Back in 2010, model-turned-business consultant Carla Franklin was upset by nasty comments about her on YouTube that came, she said, from someone stalking her.
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But he's been embroiled in a nasty legal fight with the estate of Christo Michailidis, his deceased business and live-in partner, and was forced into personal bankruptcy.
"Many firms could be in for a nasty shock by failing to give themselves adequate legal protection when doing e-business, " said the London chamber's acting chief executive Peter Bishop.
On a wider horizon, I also look forward to the nasty surprise that will hit some of the more complacent banks in their international-transfers business.
The home-office deduction is another nasty surprise awaiting the millions who joined the ranks of telecommuters and entrepreneurs who took deductions for business use of their residences.
And if the price is at or above current marks, which seems likelier, the plan risks creating a nasty dividing-line between European banks that have access to the facility because they have enough American business, and those banks that do not.
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To prove the point, she sweeps together almost every imaginable complaint against business, from the damage done to city centres by out-of-town superstores to support for nasty foreign governments.
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