It was an ugly start to a nostalgic week at Madison Square Garden, the site of so many memorable moments for the Big East tournament over the past three decades.

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Ugly children start to do less well at school because of the low expectations placed on them: they have less belief in themselves, less confidence, they receive less personal attention from their tutors, and so on.

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Meanwhile, if Fed policy does lead to growth in nominal income, it will be because inflation will start to rear its ugly head, not because printing money will spur production.

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The end result of all that nervous energy was, unsurprisingly, an ugly push into the rough and a bogey start.

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While big ugly conglomerates gasped for air during the 1970s, start-ups such as Federal Express, Microsoft, Apple, Genentech, Charles Schwab Corp. and Oracle were launched on the basis of cheaper technology and radically new business models.

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McIlroy's year got off to a horrid start, with a missed cut in Abu Dhabi and an ugly withdrawal, when he was seven-over-par, at the Honda.

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