At any rate, he says, he records plenty of stinkers, such as a Picasso that sank 63%.

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Nemiroff points out, rightly, that several of the women on our list have appeared in some real stinkers recently.

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It would have been worse if fund vendors had not folded 27 funds, most of them stinkers, last year.

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When the weather turns cold, the stinkers wriggle into homes through air conditioners and other tiny spaces, hibernating in packs.

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German dramatist Bertolt Brecht harpooned the arrogance of the privileged class ("well-born stinkers") in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle, " his 1944 absurdist tale of exile, social inequality and misguided justice.

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Aside from often being stinkers, pilots can suffer from the "not-invented-here syndrome, " as Levin calls it: the perception that once something is damaged or didn't work, it cannot be resuscitated elsewhere.

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Among the stinkers were Conseco and Time Warner.

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Sometimes, though, a few stinkers sneak by.

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