"If I took you to a country where they were reading Sanskrit and I was writing that on the board - well anyone would behave badly - how bored would you be when you tried to follow it and all you could understand was the odd word, " says Mr Ryan.
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They show that in all three sectors there was an increase in the third quarter of last year but we do not yet know how well - or badly - Northern Ireland performed for the final quarter.
The table consists of eight well-known but badly pummeled Internet stocks.
One of the things that Obama did was run against this well-entrenched incumbent and lost badly.
Private, for-profit schools are a reality - and they perform both well and badly.
In the planned progress index it did badly - and protested that its pupils were performing so well at 14 there was little room for them to do better at 16.
Similarly, when Chancellor Merkel told a meeting of MPs from her Christian Democrat (CDU) party that Cyprus's business model was broken, that would have played well in the private meeting - but badly beyond Germany's borders (including in neighbouring Luxembourg, where the foreign minister accused Germany of "striving for hegemony").
Break-ups can work either very well or very badly.
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But it is the inspection process itself which is likely to make the most difference: it is now clear what a well-run council can achieve, and where the badly run ones are going wrong.
Well-run companies have found it pretty easy to take over badly run stations and triple their cash flow.
In local elections in Italy , candidates of parties in the ruling centre-left coalition did badly, while those of small, revamped Christian Democratic parties of the centre did well.
Banks could well be the short-sellers' target again, even though most bank stocks have been badly beaten down since early 2008.
Quite possibly, therefore, the real reason Mr Kesri has decided to up-end the United Front government is not because it was doing badly, but because it was doing unexpectedly well.
Best Buy, however, has been badly hurt by increased e-commerce competition from Amazon.com, Walmart.com and Target.com, as well as the belief that its prices are higher than its Web rivals.
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Clearly there is something going badly wrong with Britain's balance of payments which goes well beyond the slow pace of recovery in the eurozone - and has yet to be fully explained.
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