Failure in bureaucracy means not bankruptcy but writing self-justifying memos, and at worst a transfer elsewhere.
The worst a security system or lift is likely to do is go into hibernation until fixed.
To hear some in Brussels, Germany is at best obsessed with monetary stability, at worst a selfish bully.
At worst a designer can end up losing control of his own name.
Many Democrats say missile defences are at best a gift to the arms industry, at worst a provocation to Russia.
Or are we seeing at worst a necessary adjustment and reordering of an industry that needs to move with the times?
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They see the unproven reliability of such tests as at best a waste of money, and at worst a danger to public health.
But justifying tax cuts on the basis of plainly unrealistic declines in that spending is at best a delusion and at worst a lie.
This will be claimed as a significant victory by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, whose demand was "at worst a freeze, at best a cut".
In that case, the risk reward ratios are at best, 140% gain versus a 15% loss, or at worst a 46% gain versus a 46% loss.
They point to essays that are at best lacking in authenticity, at worst a failed attempt to write what the candidate thinks the admissions committee wants to read.
This control that consumers have over prices has led some analysts to predict that e-commerce can at best only ever be a low-margin business, and at worst a no-margin business.
Shouting out "open" or "closed" as a prescription for categorical success is at best a mirage and at worst a predicate for anticonsumer public policy, like the government's long antitrust crusade against Microsoft.
But the problem is that as soon as fun becomes part of a corporate strategy it ceases to be fun and becomes its opposite at best an empty shell and at worst a tiresome imposition.
Germany's de facto loans to these banks is equivalent to around 30% of its GDP (this figure is based on the assumption that, in a worst case of a eurozone breakup, Germany was unable to share the cost with other eurozone members on the basis of an official burden-sharing formula).
If Washington can manage even a split of the next two games in New York, it knows it will return home at worst with a chance to knock out the Rangers in Game 5.
But as economics is at its core a behavioral science, the '09 draft was also an economics lesson for reminding us that best and worst is a fluid concept, while wealth generation is frequently compassionate beyond the basic truth that under capitalism, producers succeed for giving us what we want.
The economy is clearly slowing down, though the hard landing narrative is still a worst case scenario rather than a certain one.
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In a worst-case scenario, a person might wait as long as 15 months (from April to July the following year) for coverage to begin.
"The market has gone into a worst-case scenario for a lot of this debt, which is when it's worth taking a look, " he says.
All or any of these frightening scenarios would make it harder and more expensive for European banks to borrow - which has negative implications for European economic recovery and (in a worst case) could see a few banks falling over.
And the worst penalty a firm can mete out to a wrongdoer is the sack.
Some cancers are minor and some are the worst news a person could receive.
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In a worst case scenario, such as a double dip recession, high yield would get clobbered.
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The worst thing a team can do is engage a discontented player, especially through the media.
"Bailing out just when they perform the worst is a big mistake, " said Mr. Hewins.
He believed that bigotry and prejudice were the worst things a person could be guilty of.
Airline investing for the long term is near the very worst investment a person can make.
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