Public-opinion surveys have shown that a queue is regarded as the least-worst way to deal with non-urgent cases given the finite resources of a publicly funded health service.
This is probably the least-worst outcome for the UK. That said, the creation of a federal eurozone might lift one of the great potential threats to Britain's economic rehabilitation and simultaneously generate something of a political and constitutional dilemma.
Encouragingly, the proportion covered in sub-Saharan Africa, the worst-affected area and the one with the least developed health infrastructure, is slightly higher than the global average, at 44%.
Fifty bps, 100 bps, maybe even 150 bps more on the 10-year Treasury may be the least worst option.
Some of the worst-tasting jams (at least according to Consumer Reports) were now ranked the highest.
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With the exception of an eager beagle named Buddy, this is the worst-performed, limpest, least credible Nichols movie yet.
Arguably, such inertia isn't the worst possible response--at least most retirement savers didn't panic during the market's wild swings and sell all their stocks at the bottom.
Women with advanced stages of the disease fared the worst - 61% survived for at least a year in the UK compared with up to 74% elsewhere.
She told MSPs that the "least worst option" was to set a flat-rate fee for RUK (Rest of UK) students across the sector, to prevent them from being seen as a "cash cow" as "potentially they are now".
In a worst-case scenario, the company will at least have another business up and bringing in cash if the video side goes down.
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In fact, by some measures this has been the worst four-year period for the economy since at least the 1920s.
Perhaps most worrying, with the exception of Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, the worst-affected states are also among India's least capable.
The forestry industry, which accounts for around 8% of exports and is centred in the worst-hit regions, may be shut down for at least a month because of damage to factories and to transport links, says Charles Kimber of Arauco, a big forestry firm.
That data, at least at surface value, shows the Times piece is at best misleading -- at worst libelous.
And that's making the phones a sweeter target for online ne'er do-wells looking to, at the very least, cause mischief and, at worst, rip off unsuspecting phone owners.
That would make this by some measure the worst four-year period for the UK, outside wartime, in at least 100 years - worse than what happened in the 1920s and 1930s, and worse than anything in the 1970s and 1980s ( I've gone into these figures before).
The Libertarian former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and the social democrat hedge fund billionaire George Soros agree on at least one matter: that 2008 has presented us with the worst global financial crisis in a half-century.
Montana shot just 20 percent from the field and trailed by at least 10 points for the final 35 minutes of the worst tournament defeat in Grizzlies history, topping a 92-54 loss against Kentucky in 1997.
The blaze comes just two weeks after the collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza building, home to five garment factories, killed at least 930 people and became the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment manufacturing industry.
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