This is superficial thinking, at best.

The results are mixed, at best.

The costs of environmentally unsustainable water use must be quantified.

In short, the benefits are at best small.

This is a puzzling statement at best.

The rating agencies miscalculated the value of asset backed securities.

And the CSF s track record is dismal at best.

Three years later, the results are mixed at best.

ODA has, at best, a patchy record.

Regulation is at best a partial remedy for such problems.

At best, it is a safety valve for democracy rather than an engine of it.

And the incentive for authors to cooperate is, at best, mixed.

The liquidation value of those assets may be based on their value as part of a going concern.

Yet compliance has been patchy at best.

For Russian leaders, 1989 s lesson was clear trusting the West was foolish at best, dangerous at worst.

Moreover, the military has no incentive to value conscripts lives and well being.

Unfortunately, America s financial reforms have been half baked at best.

At best, it seems that the time path of extractions can be tilted toward the future.

It will also aggregate and evaluate the best ideas and strategies to overcome those obstacles.

In a world divided between two uncompromising superpowers, India s temporizing seemed like appeasement at best, and aid and comfort for the enemy at worst.

To get a good picture of banks financial health, estimating the value of their toxic assets is unavoidable.

But Microsoft s ambiguous at best behavior is part of a pattern.

The future of Iraq, not to mention democracy there, remains uncertain at best.

Now, analysts predict that the economy will barely grow 1 this year, and that is the best case scenario.

H. The insolvency law should provide that, in determining the liquidation value of encumbered assets in a reorganization proceeding, consideration should be given to the use of those assets and the purpose of the valuation.

In the bad bank model, the government may overpay for the bad assets, whose true value is uncertain.

In accordance with established practice, the grant, considered a temporary measure, has not been recosted to reflect the impact of inflation and currency fluctuations.

When developing nations are forced into overvalued currencies, entrepreneurship and investment in those activities are depressed.

Volunteer work should be valued and recognized as a valuable way in which youth can gain experience and skills to increase their employability.

Iraq questions Kuwait's claimed loss of use of water resources as a result of the invasion and occupation.

The bottom line is that deleveraging will ensure that growth will be modest at best in the short and medium term.

However, in the best case, the new army will not be ready before December 2005.

There are two kinds of errors people make when trying to decide what the right thing is to do, and those are errors in estimating the odds that they're going to succeed, and errors in estimating the value of their own success.

Now, estimating odds, as difficult as it may seem, is a piece of cake compared to trying to estimate value trying to say what something is worth, how much we'll enjoy it, how much pleasure it will give us.

Even in the guarantee model there can be such implicit government over payment (or an over guarantee that is not properly priced by the fees that the government receives).

At best you can grab a mere crumb of this frenetic global kaleidoscope.

However, although GNI was the best approximation of capacity to pay, it was not the only one.

At the same time, the effect of currency appreciation on the trade balance should not be exaggerated.

But if we believe that debt driven demand is different, demand stimulus will at best be a palliative.

Such an outcome cannot be ruled out, but the prospects are uncertain at best.

The transition from autocracy to democracy in the Middle East is likely to be bumpy and unstable, at best.

Under a North Korean collective leadership dominated by the military, the power of the country s economic bureaucrats will be marginal, at best.

Think now of an 8 cylinder engine running not on five cylinders, but on two or three at best.

Europeans have become the Japanese of the West financial contributors who at best play a supporting role in global strategic affairs.

Quantitative easing is a blunt instrument, at best, and operates through highly circuitous and thus dubious channels.