It's just that the amount of waste and poor value for money it has to consider has often been overwhelming.
The terms of these contracts have attracted widespread criticism as guaranteeing good profits for the companies, and poor value for consumers.
However, as portable gaming devices have got more powerful these scaled down versions of console games feel like poor value for money.
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By any available international standard, America's public schools deliver poor value for money: they cost a lot and their results overall are dismal.
The schemes in danger of being axed were not named but the LDA is looking a projects which are considered "relatively poor value for money".
The report follows a National Audit Office analysis published in September which warned that the rapid expansion of academies risked being poor value for money.
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS, offer poor value at current levels.
If the new treatment centres hit a raw nerve for many Labour members, the charge that they represent poor value for money is just as painful for ministers.
The financial watchdog, the National Audit Office, remains unhappy with their performance complaining that "HMRC's performance in answering calls from the public is poor value for money".
Banks will have to overcome a culture in which businesses get most of their credit from suppliers, which offer poor value but are seen as easier to deal with.
Rob Arnott, chairman of Research Affiliates, says small caps look more expensive than large caps on some measures and less so on others, but considers both to offer poor value.
However, Matt Hemsley, spokesman for the transport charity Sustrans Cymru, criticised the M4 relief road as "poor value for money", saying investment in public transport would do more to ease congestion.
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Matthew Sinclair, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, which campaigns for lower taxes, said HS2 was a "great vanity project... poor value compared to more affordable alternatives, but there is still time to reconsider that white elephant".
In particular, he must move fast to correct three persistent failings of the company: lack of direction, low transparency and poor shareholder value.
For dodgy credits, in any case, spreads are a poor guide to value, especially when yields are low.
His dairies, meanwhile, taught poor farmers to value cleanliness, discipline and hard work.
Let such low margin, low value things be made by poor people elsewhere while we concentrate on the high value, difficult to do, things.
The companies in these industries are either not using the metrics that are most strongly correlated to value or, when the overall correlations of financial metrics to shareholder value are poor, they are not sufficiently using TSR as a direct measure of shareholder performance.
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And one thing I just want to be clear on is we actually believe in the creative destruction of markets as well when the net value for the poor is positive.
In a misguided attempt to prop up house prices and prevent the next wave of bank failures, the Fed is destroying the value of the working poor's cash.
Solution: Restructure the legal system to enable proper, streamlined titling of properties and businesses, which can then be leveraged and traded, thereby unlocking the value of the working poor's assets.
Less probable, but just as irrelevant, is the assertion that East Timor, which is desperately poor and produces little of international value other than coffee, would not be a viable country.
His solution is to restructure the legal system to enable proper, streamlined titling of properties and businesses, which can then be leveraged and traded, thereby unlocking the value of the working poor's assets.
Rising defaults on subprime mortgages, loans extended to people with poor credit histories, has caused the value of securities backed by home loans to drop.
In particular, the low insider interest may mean that stocks are not trading at a good discount to their net asset value, or there are poor earnings prospects in the view of company directors.
Some employers are re-evaluating their retirement plans' stable-value options in the wake of poor performance during the financial crisis.
If the people of Luxembourg had a low value add then they would be poor world workers, not rich.
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Robertson, once a fine value investor, ended up favoring stocks with poor futures.
That poor Third World farmer out in the boonies gets more value from a weekly text telling him local sorghum prices than we do from gigabytes of web surfing.
Lay and Skilling, who have pleaded innocent to all charges, maintain that there was no fraud at Enron--merely bad publicity and poor investor confidence, bringing down the firm's value innocently, like many other companies that sagged in the early 21st century.
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