More or Less looks at the evidence which is proving so controversial and asks why we might get the wrong measure of another country and whether the public has been given a wholly wrong impression of success and failure.
By the time their public finances went visibly wrong, it was too late.
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In schools, and now in social services, systematic inspection seems to raise standards, and to counteract the assumption that a lack of taxpayers' money is all that is wrong with public services.
Given that such outsiders are often paid based on the returns they report, and thus have a huge incentive to cook the books, I suspect that many of the numbers issued by public pension funds are wrong.
Public or not, the SROs must prove Eliot Spitzer wrong or suffer the fate of Public Oversight Board.
Early reports that either two or three people died were wrong, said Public Security officials.
My response to that is, it is true, there is nothing wrong with a public official, under the right circumstances, helping someone get a job.
It uses public dollars to subsidize the wrong people.
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The first public sign that something was wrong was when more than 100 well dressed young women, described as looking like fashion models, gathered at the airport in the Senegalese capital Dakar, intending to board a plane to Tripoli.
When I spoke to him yesterday The First Minister also dismissed the idea that Ed Miliband was on the wrong side of public opinion with his decision not to match Mr Cameron's referendum promise - at least not yet.
Partly because of the party's own record while in office, partly because they do not want to find themselves on the wrong side of public opinion, and not least because it is becoming increasingly clear that whoever forms a government after the next election will have to continue implementing the general austerity drive for years to come.
Today, when things go wrong for a company at the FDA, the public is reliant on the company to explain why things went wrong.
At eBay, for example, top managers explain what they did right, wrong, and very wrong, all in public forums.
Some people argue that when there is a public sector pay freeze it is wrong to be helping the richest in society.
Keith House, leader of the Lib Dems on the council, criticised the upgrade saying it was the wrong way to spend public money in hard financial times.
Too much public money is going on the wrong things.
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Our public schools are supported by public tax dollars, and for the school to enter into any agreement that impedes or denies public access is patently and egregiously wrong.
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There has been five major investigations into what went wrong, including the public inquiry published earlier this month which criticised the whole NHS for the handling of the problems.
Firstly, because the judge in Bangladesh was prepared to go public and emphasise the "civil wrong" which had been done against her client, and secondly, because a British High Court order served under the new Forced Marriage Act was mentioned at the Dhaka hearing.
Yet in the short term much may still go wrong, especially in the public finances.
After all the events of the past few months, the public sees BP as having done everything wrong and nothing right.
Tort lawyers and the advocacy group Public Citizen say there's nothing wrong with letting state law provide a second layer of protection for consumers.
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But just like democracies, a broad stock-holding public will get it right more than wrong, even if no single citizen or shareholder can tell you why.
Prior to going public, Google could do no wrong.
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But Pistole has been under pressure from congressional lawmakers, flight crews and others concerned the change dangerously relaxed aviation security and sent the wrong message to a flying public eager for more simplicity and efficiency in passenger and bag screening.
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The FCPA was designed to combat a specific wrong: payments made to foreign public officials.
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Councillor Mark Howell said it would be "completely wrong and a terrible use of public money" to enter a bidding war.
You put on the face for the public and you can pretend that nothing is wrong, but actually your situation is intolerable.
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