The headline numbers do not look so bad.

True, things are pretty ugly right now.

The human rights situation in Turkmenistan remained extremely poor.

During this time he was allegedly severely maltreated and his arms and hands were slashed with knives.

Yanukovych s personal relations with Putin are so poor that Putin all but refuses to talk to him other than to make preposterous demands.

Over 50 per cent of the primary schools are now functioning, although often under very poor conditions.

But managing the tourism market in a way that can really benefit the people is very important.

A government sponsored bad bank for private assets is thus a very bad idea.

A particularly difficult plight without male support is being experienced by women widowed during the war or whose husbands have left in search of work.

On international financial markets, the war in Georgia has rendered Russian debt and bonds toxic.

As developing countries have learned from experience, all these effects are bad for capital allocation and growth.

After the Winter War the Finnish army was exhausted, and needed recovery and support as soon as possible.

And finally, I want to remind you, when you see animals do what look like very simple tasks, the actual complexity of what is going on inside their brain is really quite dramatic.

These shortages were a problem especially in the capital, St. Petersburg, where distance from supplies and poor transportation networks made matters particularly bad.

And that means that it's vulnerable to certain kinds of mistakes that can happen, or certain kinds of deliberate attacks, but even the mistakes can be bad.

Peter Marton says that the Afghani policemen do and will play a crucial role in winning in Afghanistan, although their current image inside the country is quite bad.

He's got eight talks online, and those talks can basically be summed up into just four words, because that's all he's basically showing us, our intuition is really bad.

And then, the size of the Earth. Somehow making these all compatible with the Earth looks like a pretty bad industry to be involved with.

MONUC quick impact project funds are being used to rehabilitate prisons where conditions are particularly poor, including in Lubumbashi, Kindu, Kinshasa and Kisangani.

This is a very busy table, but what this really is conveying is that, when it comes to quality, we have put in very good quality assurance systems.

Hansen condemns coal fired power plants as death factories, and his belief that coal is evil is widely shared.

Because if you do the math, you have a thousand TEDTalks, the pay 10 cents each you have to do more than one summary for each of those talks, because some of them will probably be, or are, really bad.

It's awful.

Of course, news organizations operate as businesses, and defying powerful governments can be a bad business strategy.

And then, I also wasn't really shining in a certain area that I wanted to be, and you know, you look at those scores, and it wasn't bad, but it was not certainly predictive that I would one day make my living out of the artful arrangement of words.

But inflows through money market funds are not so bad for banks, which get the cash without having to set aside reserves or pay for deposit insurance.

8.5 The complainant stresses that the fact that she was not arrested on arrival in Spain, nor interrogated by the security forces, was due to her very poor state of health after 31 days of hunger strike.

NEWPORT BEACH It sounded like a really clever idea Use a very public and sizeable threat to get bickering politicians to collaborate and compromise.

Your gums are in bad shape.

Your condition isn't serious.

Bad advice.

Smoking is a bad habit.

The humanitarian situation is poor.

To buy half of the Piraeus harbor at a knockdown price may seem more advantageous than investing in the long term consolidation of the Greek economy and its finances, but is that really the case?

The package is of bad quality

He's in a bad state.

That's a bad zoo.

I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning, you know, beginning, middle and end. It really scares me, because my life is too random and too confused, and I enjoy it that way.

DENVER Critics of America s Middle East policies are reminiscent of Woody Allen s quip in Annie Hall The food at this place is really terrible...and such small portions.

As a result of the slave labor brick plants, as well as reports of an eight year old child worker being buried alive and migrant workers killed, Hongdong s name has become infamous.

When we have a bad idea, the response to a bad idea is not no ideas, it's not to stop thinking.

It is neither good nor bad.

Mao's advice is not bad.

The first idea is a bad one.

A good emblem, but the colors are bad.