Small-jet innovation and sales are booming, but the poor relations, those single-engine Archers, Skyhawks and Bonanzas, sell at a shadow of their 1970s peak.
Commercial bankers, once the poor relations in Russia's bubble economy, are now discreetly enjoying the pickle in which their investment banking colleagues have landed.
Others suggest the history of poor relations between America and Israel during the administration of George W Bush's father may have undermined the Republican vote.
If mayors are no longer the poor relations of American politics, their continued acceptance within the family depends largely on the future strength of the national economy.
Nor does he have a pattern of poor relations with his former colleagues in Congress as did Carter or Clinton, given the smooth style of Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and legislative liaison Phil Schiliro.
The report shone a light on the poor relations between the FSA and RBS and said chief executive Fred Goodwin's "assertive and robust" management style was flagged as a potential risk as early as 2003, four years before the disastrous ABN Amro deal.
For this broad-shouldered Superman, his Kryptonite seems to be his own poor public relations skills in the face of conflict and dissension.
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The EU and Gulf aid agencies and corporations are providing a degree of assistance, but they have been constrained by Syria's poor political relations with key Arab states and Western powers.
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The BBC's Rayhan Demytrie says the two countries have historic and cultural ties but relations are poor.
Others, such as awful labour relations, poor management, or inadequate schools and technical colleges, are more plausible, but none seems bad enough to take all the blame.
However, there are three important reasons for rejecting an early return that should be uppermost in the minds of Western corporate decision-makers and bankers: It stands to be bad for business, poor for corporate public relations and detrimental to U.S. policy interests.
Other severe weaknesses are poor quality, bad labor relations .
The big sorting offices in London have had poor, often chaotic, labour relations for years.
The biggest problem during Carter's Hundred Days was that he grossly mishandled congressional relations, setting a poor tone for the months to come.
Historically, Chile's relations with its three neighbours have been poor.
In early 2007, after Zander concluded that the message the company had been broadcasting had been poor, he decided to force out long-standing investor relations Vice President Ed Gams.
Critics also accused Mutharika of jeopardizing international relations and risking foreign aid that benefits the nation's poor.
Relations between the Bush administration and New York's Masters of the Universe are poor in any case.
Many managers and owners have bemoaned the poor returns on investment that the academies have produced and others have suggested they are little more than public relations exercises to placate fans' desire for home-grown heroes.
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