Strangely, it's hard to tell whether Hawaii is the best or worst laboratory in the nation for this unusual political experiment.
Over the past 10 years, all but two sectors (utilities and industrials) have been either the best or worst performer at least once.
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Dr John Chisholm, Chairman of BMA's GP's Committee, said: "First rate family doctors feel their patients get a second rate NHS service - or worst".
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.
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.
Hartford was either the worst or second-worst school system in Connecticut, with a high dropout rate and three failed traditional high schools.
For those that do not like to communicate, I am often the best thing they ever had or their worst nightmare.
Actually, American students are mostly improving, or at worst holding their own.
Ultimately, this mindset results in employees who quit, blow up, or (worst of all) work to the talent level and expectations of their bosses.
"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 manner in which these funds operate must be clearly understood or else any further regulation will be at best ineffective or at worst counter-productive.
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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.
In that case, the risk reward ratios are at best, 140% gain versus a 15% loss, or at worst a 46% gain versus a 46% loss.
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.
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.
Do you experience an unconscious sense of self-lack, uncertainty about your last post or (worst of all), do you spend the next hour refreshing your page for some semblance of positive reinforcement?
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Or, worst of all, given the gaudy carnival of the stock market in the 1990s, combined with the deflationary cost-curve of Moore's Law, is the U.S. diving once more into the maw of a 1929 slaughter?
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.
"Let's make sure we at least have a private market that's robust and functioning and safe and trusted, so that either it's going to be supportive of a public market, or, worst-case scenario, if the public market is forever broken for smaller-cap companies, we have an alternative, " he argues.
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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.
"Knife crime scars people for life emotionally and physically or, at worst, kills, " he said.
If it's not, you don't laugh -- or at very worst, you can leave quietly.
It said 'the system continues to treat older patients as a surprise, at best, or unwelcome at worst'.
When repurposed for uses that are ho-hum at best or redundant at worst, data is not nearly as interesting.
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Have the insurance companies (and ultimately the consumers) dodged the bullet in 2012, or is the worst yet to come?
But those figures likely convey an exaggerated sense of growth because the recession was at or near its worst in January 2009.
Senator RICHARD LUGAR (Republican, Indiana): The end result is that many of the accusations have proven to be groundless or, at worst, overstated.
In list-making we often focus on the outright worst or best.
Skeptics are often lambasted for being insensitive or, at worst, inhuman.
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