But he also argues that Britain has done badly at spreading the benefits of London.
If the Republicans had done badly, he would have got some of the blame.
These have prospered for the same reason that the industrial companies have done badly: conservatism.
Though the centre-left coalition government under Giuliano Amato has not done badly, it is in disarray.
Done badly they can leave people looking puffed up, or with major infections.
Even without the background, he hasn't done badly in bringing significant parts of the jazz repertoire to life.
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Yet some studies have found that gold has often performed well at times when stocks and bonds have done badly.
Share prices are around 50% below their peaks in many countries, so compared with shareowners, homeowners have not done badly.
Done badly, it can make it laughably easy to outwit computer-controlled opponents.
Mr Paulson (whose fund has done badly of late) was able to buy CDSs cheaply because everyone else was bullish on American housing.
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"And if it was an exam, I'd be prepared to accept that I had done badly, but coursework, which has been seen by teachers, is different, " she said.
While the relocation has undoubtedly damaged the big-spending and marketing-driven IPL financially, as no atmosphere can match a local Indian one, South Africa has not done badly - with the event seemingly inspiring the next generation of Graeme Smiths, Herschelle Gibbs and Makhaya Ntinis.
Perhaps because it was the first to fess up, HSBC hasn't done so badly since then.
The EU has done very badly: 22 of its 27 members have lost time.
In this case specifically, I do not feel I have done too badly.
Stockmarkets in countries where interest-rate and commodity-price fears are combined, as they are in Latin America, have done especially badly.
Given these conditions, Mr Mesa has not done too badly on keeping four promises that he made when he came to power.
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On that basis, George Osborne hasn't done too badly in the deal.
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Set against these dire expectations, the court has not done too badly.
Mr Inwood, in his book, concedes that for most of its history London has not done too badly without a central guiding hand.
Milwaukee-Racine, the state's largest metropolitan area, has done especially badly.
But the economy has done so badly over the past few years that some say the inflation target is leading the Bank to miss something else that is equally important: economic growth.
Because, while all of this might have been done with the very best of intentions it was done so badly that near no one is willing to purchase any minerals from the area.
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But these forecasts are often badly done, or worse, done with a purpose to influence the future while pretending to be predicting it.
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