Arguably, such inertia isn't the worst possible response--at least most retirement savers didn't panic during the market's wild swings and sell all their stocks at the bottom.
But the Lehman Brothers STRIPS 20-25 index dropped 19.9% during that period--and that wasn't its worst loss.
Those nuggets from Applegate Farms certainly weren't the worst thing in the world, but each one was more air and less chicken than I could have known.
John Logan's "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, " in which Ms. Midler impersonates the late Hollywood superagent, isn't the worst one-person play to hit Broadway this century (that would be "Ann").
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"We haven't seen the worst of it yet, " says Nardelli from his Atlanta headquarters.
She adds that selling at this point in the cycle isn't always the worst fate.
"It's a scary feeling, so I'm really preparing myself for, I don't want to say the worst, but you never know, " she said.
And when police arrived to check out the premises, they probably wouldn't have been nearly as ready to believe the worst about the occupant of a home who clearly wasn't engaged in a criminal act.
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At best, forgiveness is a two-way street, and I just don't think people should be told, you're stuck at the worst point in your life if you don't forgive.
It wouldn't feel half as bad to be in one of the worst-paid professions in the country if we didn't constantly feel that we had to justify every penny of our earnings.
This doesn't mean taxpayers will escape the worst financial crisis in decades entirely unscathed.
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The worst symptoms don't return so long as he stays on the treatment, Mr. Johnson says.
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"I have been clear that we won't hesitate to intervene where the worst delays are not tackled effectively, " he said.
This year's drawing, performed Wednesday, ended up with the Hornets getting the nod, even though they didn't have the league's worst record.
Then again, the worst record didn't help the Bobcats last year, when they fell to No. 2 and missed a shot at Anthony Davis.
"John will probably have the lowest budget in this league, but that doesn't mean he will have the worst team in this league, " Soraff said.
The worst part wasn't the hospital sessions.
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For if you're going to accidentally have your product resemble a famous person, somehow, by a strange law of comedy that can't be explained, the absolute worst human being in the history of the world is far more amusing than, say, Tom Hanks.
The 1998 Marlins were the worst team in that franchise's history and the 2011 Astros weren't far behind, as the franchise's second-worst team.
If it's not, you don't laugh -- or at very worst, you can leave quietly.
"The countries that will suffer worst if we don't take any action are the poorest countries, " he said.
If you don't keep your computer healthy, the worst thing that can happen is losing your hard drive.
That practice hasn't prevented Delta itself from making the worst 10 list in its own right, landing the No. 9 slot.
But Conrad says that unless a larger number is proven--something he doesn't think is likely--the worst should be over for the company.
But prosecutions of the worst teachers simply won't be enough.
This worst-case scenario doesn't factor in hedging strategies the banks might have taken to limit these risks.
We had a situation that -- and if that weren't bad enough, then we had the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.
Jyske Bank analyst Christian Nagstrup believes that while shipping rates have seen the worst, they probably won't return to their precrisis levels before 2014.
Bangladesh commerce minister Mohammed Quader admitted in a recent interview that the government didn't do enough to "discourage" the worst operators "because we wanted the jobs".
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