The accumulated evidence undermines the case for minimum wages even in the best of times.
Day trading, which made no sense even in the best of times, is now 100% illusory.
Not a good idea in the best of times, a terrible idea at this time.
Leasing pre-existing rentals, especially on High Streets, would be challenging in the best of times.
Sure, the grocery game is tough, with teensy margins even in the best of times.
Even in the best of times, teachers are asked to do more with less.
An old banking adage holds that the worst loans fund in the best of times.
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Transitioning from military service to civilian life can be challenging in the best of times.
And even in the best of times, they receive far less funding than four-year colleges and universities.
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New Orleans is always looking for a good celebration -- in the best of times and worst.
Even in the best of times, many of these monuments were lightly policed, especially in remote areas.
But even in the best of times, picking successors is tricky business, as Peter Drucker liked to point out.
Even in the best of times, the open ocean is one of the harshest, most unforgiving environments on earth.
"Turnout in special elections is light, even in the best of times, " said Michael Krasner, a political-science professor at Queens College.
Order vanished with a speed and treachery that shocked even Medan's residents, who can, in the best of times, take perverse pleasure in their city's famously brutal reputation.
Everyone has been cheerful and patient, even more than New Yorkers normally are in a city that demands such qualities of its residents even in the best of times.
Even in the best of times, the idea that anything in the neighborhood of this number could be achieved would be enough to get at least a few marketing, branding, and sales departments into meetings come Monday morning.
The issue isn't whether the United States will be able to win a popularity contest in the region (this is doubtful even in the best of times), but rather, that alienating large swaths of the local population makes it much more difficult to defeat terrorism.
In the best of economic times, there are always millions of people out of work.
It may not feel like it in the West, but this is, in many ways, the best of times.
The Republican Party, a coalition of interest groups at the best of times, has a majority in the House of Representatives of merely six seats, the narrowest since 1955.
Funny white men in floppy hats and red faces attract attention in Africa at the best of times.
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The fledgling stock markets in the Gulf are volatile at the best of times and, of course, they have continued to track their more established forerunners throughout this rollercoaster of a month.
And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.
The No. 2 seed in the East, the Knicks beat Miami three times and are perhaps the best hope of giving the Heat a challenge in the playoffs.
If "Zero Dark Thirty" does win Best Picture, it will be one of only five times in the past 25 years when the director of the best film didn't also get an Oscar.
The two best players in the world traded strokes of such power at times it was like watching a couple of heavyweight boxers, and more ferocity from Nadal allowed the Mallorcan to break Djokovic for a third time.
It reached the top of the New York Times best-seller list in 2009.
Although the focus of questioning at the pre-match news conferences was the likelihood of controversy, it should not be forgotten that the last match was perhaps the best Old Firm game in terms of the quality of football played in recent times.
Westminster, and the important buildings contained within it, will continue to benefit from some of the best emergency response times in the country.
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