To get the share price out of the gutter, HP investors will eventually want HP to buy companies that sell much hotter products.

FORBES: Connect

And vocals, bathed in old-school reverb, that lift Waits out of the gutter long enough for him to channel the ghost of some long-dead early rock idol.

NPR: Tom Waits' 130 Seconds of Rock Bliss

During the worst year of the Great Depression, 1937, a writer named Napoleon Hill picked the theme out of the gutter and lifted the spirits of the country, with a best seller called Think and Grow Rich.

FORBES: The American Dream And The Gospel of Success

Can boxing climb out of the gutter?

CNN: July 13, 2012 -- Updated 1727 GMT (0127 HKT)

While Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and others trying to guide the EU out of the gutter have been forced to sound overly optimistic, the Economic and Financial Committee appears to be more in touch with reality, taking into the account the possibility of a renewed crisis in the financial sector that could reverberate into the real economy.

FORBES: Official Euro Document: Crisis Now Systemic As Bank Liquidity Problem Fuels Vicious Feedback Loop

With three more weeks to Pennsylvania's primary, Clinton challenges Obama to gutter-ball politics, Democrats still can't figure out what to do with Michigan and Florida, John McCain draws up a listed possible running mates.

NPR: Political Junkie: Three Weeks to Pennsylvania