But the results can be unsatisfying or even dangerous if the work is done poorly.
And they accept all-comers, making them appealing to people who may have done poorly in high school.
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This could be good news for the companies, because up until now Onglyza has done poorly in the market.
TI's results invariably generate a splash, particularly in countries that have done poorly.
International names like Deutsche Bank and Banco Santander have done poorly as well.
It has traditionally done poorly in local elections but has gained more than 30 councillors through Tory defections in recent months.
When done poorly, the cliffhanger is all about shoddy craftsmanship, the creepy manipulation by a storyteller who has run out of tricks.
Second, we have many lessons to learn from successful people who have done poorly, dropped out, never went, or just hated school.
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Firms that rely on political connections to obtain finance have done poorly.
The other half, many of whom lack family support and suffer from the most severe illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, have done poorly.
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Done poorly, it could set the movement back ten years by propping up models that perpetuate and sustain the status quo rather than reimagining it, which would have significant negative ramifications.
Investing in funds that had done poorly over the previous year, and were therefor shunned by investors did slightly better, but again not as well as the average return across asset classes.
From these examples, social enterprise is an improvement over merely aid with no thought, but there are places where it is being done well and others where it is being done poorly.
Traditional Brazil investors have done poorly, while investors who were picking up consumer stocks traded on the Bovespa stock exchange last year did well if they had access to a local broker.
According to Brendan Nelson, the education minister and a rising star in the Liberal Party, the federal government is now concentrating its efforts on training, on which he thinks the states have done poorly.
Study after study has confirmed that a fund manager who has had a good run for a few years does not have a much better chance of performing well than one who has done poorly.
When she told Mr. Jordan that she had done poorly, he called the Chairman of the Board, Ronald Perelman, to recommend Miss Lewinsky, whom he commended as 'this bright young girl, who I think is terrific.
So, though he has done so poorly at the ballot box, he may still maintain some of his enormous institutional power.
The reason stocks have done so poorly in the past 13 years is because in 1999 they were 33 times earnings.
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By those standards, Ms. Rosenfeld and her team have done quite poorly.
The option is then open to the customer (as it is in Europe) to contribute a little extra for a job well done, or a little less (as it is not in Europe) for a job poorly done.
So my take is: poorly done study, published in a relatively uncompetitive journal (PLoS ONE), with a small effect.
Later, as a state-run hotel, it suffered several poorly done renovations.
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