The London Olympics has been lousy with athletes rejoicing over silver medals.
Something about the mixture of African, Caribbean and European rhythms combines to create a sound, and a moment, that can only be experienced in New Orleans, in a small club with lousy acoustics, filled with residents from the surrounding neighborhood.
There are countries with representative institutions and lousy demographics (the Baltics), countries with representative institutions and robust demographics ( India), countries with authoritarian institutions and robust demographics (Saudi Arabia), and countries with authoritarian institutions and lousy demographics (Belarus).
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If you listen to conventional wisdom women, when compared with men, are lousy tippers and cheap with their charitable dollars.
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The event was a lousy one, with Nebraska a sorry matchup with Miami of Florida.
The right match can be especially meaningful for kids who live in impoverished neighborhoods with lousy schools.
You may want to consider replacing such things as the lousy keyboard supplied with most low-end Windows machines.
But reams of sales data weren't what Roberts wanted when customers were upset with lousy food, slow service, sloppy stores and surly employees.
Despite his unattractive past, Garcia quickly built Ugly Duckling into the top seller and financer of used cars for people with lousy credit histories.
The family considers Toula a disgrace and pursues her like the Furies, hounding her with lousy advice and overloaded plates of lamb and baklava.
Desperate to make a move and cursed most of the morning with lousy cards, I began bluffing heavily, and successfully, scratching back near even.
I'm surprised that wireless carriers don't seem to be making a concerted effort to ensure good data network coverage at airports, especially at airports with lousy, unreliable, or paid Wi-Fi access.
When I see a company controlled by powerful IT guys I see a company with a lousy corporate culture.
At the end of the day though, investors will be more concerned with the lousy quarter than the timing of the release.
But -- I hate to sound like a broken record -- we could create an almost unlimited number of jobs out of this, even in this lousy economy, even with all this embedded mortgage crisis, if we can work out the financing.
We remain in a lousy environment for savers, with yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury hovering just above 2%.
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The pleasures of lousy baseball are so bound up with cloying romanticism, about Chicago's crumbling old yard and Boston fans who only got to enjoy a championship as octogenarians, that you have to be cautious about touting them, so that string music doesn't start swelling.
Two years ago Americans changed leadership in the Presidency, Congress and the Senate out of disgust with the financial crisis and lousy economy.
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People with ADHD do great one hour and lousy the next, or great one day and lousy the next, regardless of effort and time in preparation.
Over the past two decades gold has been a lousy store of value, failing to keep pace with inflation, and it has massively underperformed equities and bonds.
To see where all this could go, think about another failed Motorola-designed communications network, a phone-taxi dispatch hybrid with clunky phones, poor call quality and lousy customer service.
But the team was lousy during its first six years at Comerica before breaking through with an American League title in 2006.
Ethiopia's relations with Eritrea, his mother's birthplace, remain lousy.
There's no denying that Gore, a onetime newspaper reporter who had testy relations with the press during his 2000 campaign, presided over a lousy cable channel.
Just as the flea pit around the corner will have to beat off customers with the proverbial dirty stick because it does have that buzz despite lousy music and the expense.
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