Just how bad is it for Scotland's young people, as the UK total of young people seeking work accelerates through the one million mark?
The question now is: How bad is it?
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We have to be focused on the survivors, and the emphasis on speed -- to get there, get stabilized, to figure out what the next steps are without waiting to ask all the questions, well, how bad is it, what do you need?
If you wait till you know how bad it is, it becomes harder to change the outcome.
While this is certainly bad for workers and unions, I have to wonder just how truly bad is it for people.
That has a lot more impact, in my view, on television if you have someone physically on your screen looking at you telling you look this is how bad it is, showing you, leading you through as a viewer, taking you by the hand and leading you through the story.
"It doesn't really matter how much it rains here, it depends on how bad it is in mid-Wales, " he said.
Pain is the top reason people see a doctor, and there's no way to quantify how bad it is other than what they say.
We won't know just how bad it is until the weather warms and inspectors can take a really close look at the crops.
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We don't know how bad it is but he definitely did something when he played one of his first pull shots on Friday against Australia.
Then all the discussion is focused on whether it is over or not and how bad it might get.
How bad is the credit crunch? it's so bad that it's making even ardent environmentalists look longingly at dirty old coal.
I'll know exactly what the problem is and how bad the inflammation is and how long it's going to take to go away.
The result is that the only debate on the right now is how bad will it be.
Then all the discussion is focused on whether it is over or not, and if not, how bad it will get.
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Gross domestic product, foreign exchange reserves, current account surpluses - big numbers are thrown around daily as Asia tries to measure how bad the Crisis is and whether it is bottoming out.
As for the bank's recent tax-reduction maneuver, it's another reminder that Goldman's management is either clueless about how bad it looks or doesn't care.
But few appreciate how bad the problem is, or that it is rising.
So great is the exuberance these days that it is sometimes difficult to remember just how bad things once were.
It is impossible to say with certainty how bad the 21st century's heating will be, but there is a large chance of it getting hot enough to do harm, and a far from trivial chance of things turning catastrophic.
They do nothing to educate themselves, yet they all act like they KNOW how bad something is, solely because they heard it in the news.
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The UnitedHealth Group over the weekend announced what could be very big news -- or it could be good or bad, depending I guess on how you analyze it -- which is that even if the Supreme Court strikes down the health care overhaul, they would keep most of the protections, but not the ones covering preexisting illnesses.
The question is what that shoe is going to be, and how bad it's going to be.
If managers do their own research, how is it they invested in the same bad deals the investment banks were recommending?
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"We really feel bad for her because we realize how hard it is for her to live like that, " she says.
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