Technology firms, naturally enough, are desperate to know when things will start to get better.
He says the trouble is that the moment when things are supposed to get better - that "light" which Mr Monti sees - just seems to keep receding.
Things get much better, however, when things start to go wrong.
Things didn't get any better when we went out to see our supporters more than an hour before the game.
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Then when I started having children, things, I thought, would get better.
Now that was largely thanks to some fortuitously-timed borrowing in the years prior, but the point remains that when things get dicey the player with the most liquidity is typically in better shape.
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It makes complete sense to me that a company with happy and dedicated workers would do even better, relative to companies without that advantage, when things get tough.
When you combine that with the savings you might get from better rates on things like credit cards and auto loans, you start to see why a good credit score is important to your financial success.
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"Hopefully, when people go through this exhibit, they get a better understanding of Abraham Lincoln -- the things he went through, his life, his achievements, his contributions and the kind of personal drive, " he said.
Some had been hoping the economy would get better faster and in turn tried to maintain their headcounts in order to be at capacity when things pick up again.
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