Friday morning, many on Wall Street were stunned by the big fat zero put up by the August jobs report, the worst showing in 11 months.
Between 2004 and 2012, the committee received over 100 petitions alleging breaches of EU laws on waste management, with Italy, Greece, France, Spain and Ireland being among the worst-offenders, leading to the report being produced.
In March this year, a report said the worst incidents of domestic violence in Northern Ireland were generally not reported to the police.
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The report suggested the worst affected retailers include specialists in books, news and stationery, where distress signals were 85% higher on the previous quarter.
These days Brazil ranks among the countries with the worst English language competency in the world, according to a report released last week by Education First (EF), a worldwide educational company.
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The committee said a lack of data from countries with some of the worst death tolls, a tendency to under-report maternal deaths and the use of national averages all meant it can be hard to establish the true extent of the problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
As of now we are on course to exceed the "worst case" projections for long term health costs in the 2002 report.
Jean Howard, a resident of Kinglake, one of the communities worst-affected by the bushfires, told the BBC before the report's publication that she hoped the report would offer constructive advice rather than simply condemning those in authority.
One of the authors of the Data report, Adrian Lovett, said the countries that would be worst affected by any prolonged aid cuts were poor African states.
On the same day Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, said he had been misquoted in a widely leaked report that he had called the quarrel the worst crisis between the allies for 35 years.
The report ranks the best and worst states for retirement by measuring certain factors that affect retirees.
Earlier this month CareerCast, a career guidance website, came out with a report rating the best and worst jobs for 2012.
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Looking specifically at some of the earliest and worst hit areas, they report a majority of injured species have not recovered, from seabirds to killer whales.
Managers at the hospital, says the report, failed to prevent Professor van Velzen's "worst excesses".
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"The Lucero murder, while the worst of the violence so far, was hardly an isolated incident, " the report said.
Studying coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean, the researchers of the report published in "Current Biology" found that overfishing is at its worst in areas that are socio-economically underdeveloped.
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Mr. Holloway and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda Gibbs introduced the new flood-zone map Friday as part of the city's Hurricane Sandy After Action report, an overview of the emergency response to one of the worst storms in New York City's history.
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"The Index has averaged 90 in this recovery, now 3 years old and is the worst recovery period from a recession, " since 1973 when the data began, said the report.
Two Lancashire hospital trusts have been rated among the worst in England for mortality rates in a new report.
Boston did not even rank in the worst 25 metropolitan areas in the State of the Air report.
The worst example was in 2007, when Unicef published a report suggesting that the UK was at the bottom of a league table of developed countries for childhood wellbeing.
Old World economies will have the worst growth performance in the next 40 years, the report predicts: Spain, France, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany are at the bottom of the list.
In a report, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said the worst affected were youth: nearly 13% of the under 24s were unemployed.
The report also highlighted The Public gallery in West Bromwich as "perhaps the worst example" of wasted cash.
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Sprint Nextel was among the worst performers on Thursday as it stock plunged more than 16% on an earnings report that showed the third largest U.S. mobile carrier losing more than 100, 000 monthly mobile customers and a wider than expected loss.
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The Associated Press reported on new research from Keynote Systems According to the report, most systems suffer from frequent disruptions and, for customers of the worst performers, one out every 20 call attempts fails.
The report from the Local Data Company, titled "Too Many Shops", said the worst performer of all the large shopping centres was Nottingham with a vacancy rate of 30.6%.
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The report found the mother, known as Miss M, had been at best indifferent and at worst hostile to the council's support.
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