The company lost 12.7 billion dollars in 2006, its worst year ever.

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If that holds up, this will be its worst year ever.

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According to the U.S. Consumer Product Association, 2007 was the worst year ever in terms of the number of product recalls, with 467 consumer products recalled--and that doesn't include auto and medical snafus.

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"2012 was probably the worst year I've ever had in my entire career, " she said.

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The situation this year is the worst I have ever experienced.

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At the end of last year, China witnessed its worst winter drought ever delaying the plantation of new cotton crop in the Hubei province of China.

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Pakistan is still grappling with the effects of last year's floods, the country's worst ever, affecting 20m people.

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"It's the worst performance I have ever seen by a company in one year, " said Walter Loeb, an independent retail consultant.

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This year's contest was surely one of the worst ever.

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