"They didn't start out on the street as horrible children, or the worst neighbours going, but they became that way, " the mother told us.
The quote selectors decide whether the rest of us are going to hear the best of what you say and do or the worst of it.
We challenge our e-mailers to send us the first line of that new novel, and we'll tell you if it's the best of lines or the worst of lines.
As French forces, with the backing of the international community, go into the West African country to take on Islamist rebels, the coming weeks will tell us whether fate just gave to him the best or the worst opportunity to show the French, and the rest of the world, what he is made of.
It seems like only yesterday we were sitting around debating whether or not the ending of Mass Effect 3 was misinterpreted, bad or simply the worst.
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Have the insurance companies (and ultimately the consumers) dodged the bullet in 2012, or is the worst yet to come?
How do you keep your company morale intact after a promotion or partnership appointment, or in the worst case, how do you keep yourself out of court for discrimination?
After all, an increasing number of people are turning to streaming as the alternative to DVD and it seems that studios are , at best, leaving money on the table or, in the worst case scenario, encouraging piracy.
The governments of Fernandez and Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri sought to blame each other for the chaos, and the nation's divided media focused their coverage in ways that put one side or the other in the worst light.
Over the past decade or so, the worst loss suffered by Lehman's Aggregate Bond Index, a proxy for the entire bond market, was a 3.5% decline over two months in mid-2003.
Over the past decade or so, the worst loss suffered by Lehman's Aggregate Bond Index (amex: AGG - news - people ), a proxy for the entire bond market, was a 3.5% decline over two months in mid-2003.
Strangely, it's hard to tell whether Hawaii is the best or worst laboratory in the nation for this unusual political experiment.
Hartford was either the worst or second-worst school system in Connecticut, with a high dropout rate and three failed traditional high schools.
Any given bit of the coast seems likely to be hit by a hurricane of category four or five (the worst sort), on average, once every 300 years.
But while the news typically sounds good or, at the very worst, cautious, Zynga is anything but a safe game developer.
The fiscal cliff deal delays or prevents some of the worst consequences of the cliff from taking place, but not all of them.
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Is it continuing in the direction that has led to 4.3 million jobs created as we recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression, or is it going back to the policies that precipitated, caused the worst recession since the Great Depression?
If you don't follow through and make a commitment to follow through with those ideas you often find they fall by the wayside or at worst, you find that competitive solutions draw on the same ideas and utilise them.
For most travelers, business or leisure, the worst part of any trip is the flight.
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Two means that he or she has the worst sort, falciparum malaria, which requires urgent attention.
The country's Sensitive Index, or Sensex, was the worst-performing major stock-market benchmark in the region in 2011, sliding 24.6%.
But the crime, the looting, and the other betrayals of societal trust are what often sting the worst, or at least leave the most bitter taste in peoples mouths.
Quietly, despite the best (or worst) efforts of Congress, the US unemployment rate has steadily declined from over 10% at the peak down to 8.6% last month, its lowest level in three years.
Pharmacists are permitted to refuse to fill prescriptions for conventional and emergency contraceptives as long as another pharmacist is available to fulfill the request or, at worst, another pharmacy can provide the service without creating undue burden on the patient.
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And the boys are the worst, or so argued an essay in The Wall Street Journal this past weekend by Kay Hymowitz, usually a shrewd and lucid observer of the relations between the sexes.
Whether the 2007-09 slump was the worst since the 1930s or is merely tied with the 1973-74 debacle is an open debate.
Above all, in the best (or worst) Strauss tradition, Mr Stoiber has laid into the Bonn government on everything from joining the euro (he insists the criteria be met to the last decimal point) to autobahn tolls.
The best ETFs and mutual funds allocate more value to attractive-or-better-rated stocks than the worst, which allocate too much value to neutral-or-worse-rated stocks.
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It's really taught me that the best people to solve a situation are those who stand to benefit most or be worst affected by the solution.
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