Governments around the region have responded with all manner of half-baked energy-saving measures.
You learn quickly not to come in with half-baked or no- baked proposals.
The string of measures was a strange mixture of well-meaning steps at social reform, half-baked schemes for quasi-socialist industrial planning, regulation to protect consumers, welfare programs to help the hardest hit, government support for the cartelization of industry, higher wages for some, lower wages for others, on the one hand government pump priming, on the other public economy.
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We've heard merger rumors before -- there was some half-baked chatter back in the day that RIM was after 'em -- and it does seem like Palm is at a crossroads.
For Labour, shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne called it a "very hazy and half-baked plan from the prime minister, when what we really need is a serious back-to-work programme".
Half-baked ideas for new Fund programmes are not as helpful as would be concrete, albeit more modest-seeming, measures to help financial markets work better.
And when Clinton visited Africa this past March, he issued only an elliptical, half-baked apology.
Maybe because of our half-baked plan, each day seemed more remarkable than the last.
How can I tell when my ideas are actually legitimate notions or nothing but half-baked schemes?
He warned that "haste may result in us having a half-baked and rushed product".
Mr Chidambaram has proved it can, despite political compromises that have led to some half-baked measures.
Somehow it's unfair to put them in the same basket as some half-baked website.
Shaw is up to the task for both, even if the production seems littered with half-baked ideas.
It opted for a little bit of both and suffered the consequences of being half-baked, through and through.
It was a time of singing-sock-puppets, 21-year-old chief executives, gravity-defiant stock prices, revolutionary technologies and half-baked business plans.
Those proposals are half-baked, which means that they must be the beginning of a process, not the end.
His later films often spiraled away into an indecipherable landscape of half-baked dialogue, outlandish characters and cheesy sets.
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Manganello, who oversees an internal venture capital fund that provides engineers with seed money to chase their half-baked ideas.
There are too many misunderstandings, too many unspoken expectations, too many half-baked assumptions.
Like many well-meaning efforts at deregulation, this one was half-baked from the start.
The spontaneous (and sometimes half-baked) tone of the blogosphere sits ill with the need to sound measured and definitive.
We'll soon see if the captain's home cooking turns out to be half-baked.
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Unfortunately, "Random Hearts" isn't a cake, it's a film, and it's only half-baked.
He has never yet dropped a promise contained in Labour's manifesto, however half-baked it has turned out to be.
Another surprise: Many genes produce half-baked proteins that need to interact with other proteins, made by other genes, to function.
Howls of protest from practitioners, and even from some national regulators, complained that the proposals were half-baked, particularly concerning prospectuses.
However, this strategy could backfire since RIM will be playing catch-up with competition if it introduces half-baked products into the market.
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As a result, they entered into ventures far beyond their expertise, based on half-baked ideas thought to be profound market insights.
The software, however, was a disappointing bundle of half-baked features that will need to be upgraded if they are to succeed.
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