But also, there is reason to hope that next year's recession, if it comes, will not be as nasty a bust as Britain's previous slumps precisely because the macroeconomic policies of this government and its predecessor have been less volatile.
We had a nasty moment in a restaurant when Myleene was surrounded by particularly persistent paparazzi pursuing pictures of her baby.
In 1993, he had a nasty accident when a car stuck him in Harvard Square while he was on his two-wheeler.
Soon after, following a nasty confrontation at a board meeting, Leute resigned.
Though the role, clearly, is not the man, were he to win this time it might be thought to leave a nasty taste on a night when Hollywood routinely congratulates itself on its good taste and wholesome entertainment values.
By the time a stockbroker realizes that he or she is embroiled in a nasty dispute between a married couple, the damage is often done and upon looking back, the warning signs suddenly look much clearer than when they first manifested themselves.
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By the time a stockbroker realizes that he or she is embroiled in a nasty dispute between a married couple (or in this case a mess involving surviving and deceased spouses and their heirs), the damage is often done and upon looking back, the warning signs suddenly look much clearer than when they first manifested themselves.
She felt around in the blocked sink with her rubber gloves, poking into the plughole with the toothbrush, pulling at the ends of the fibres caught in the trap, tugging and coaxing until she began to deliver up out of the drain a nasty mass, a thick rope of hair and soap and matted insulation, in a gulp of bad drain smell.
Here is a nasty authoritarian regime with a rapidly modernising army far larger than its defensive needs require.
MCI, WorldCom had given the old guard a nasty fright by launching a service to carry fax traffic over the Internet.
Southgate's team were knocked out of their stride by the loss of Downing, who hobbled off with a nasty-looking injury following a heavy challenge by Stiliyan Petrov.
However, letting a nasty problem fester almost always guarantees a future crisis.
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Mr de Villepin knows well from his study of French history that forelock-tuggers can quickly turn nasty in a crowd.
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) had a huge move since the start of the year, but a pretty nasty topping tail with a screaming RSI got me short this yesterday.
The Guinness Premiership side suffered an early blow when Cuthbert was forced off early in the second half, getting his tackling position all wrong and suffering a nasty blow to the head as a result.
Llanelli lock Chris Wyatt left the field with a nasty cut above his eye after a skirmish with Chris Anthony, but the referee decided to keep his red and yellow cards firmly in his pocket.
Taking out a nasty tumor will not necessarily bring about a cure.
Weaver still has a nasty scar of his right leg from a cut he got while being tossed about in the turbulent waters.
"Google, because of the way it stores things, can perpetuate a problem, " says founder Craig Newmark, who recently spent an afternoon chasing a user who wrote six nasty messages about a neighbor.
Earlier this year she helped Stevens recover after a nasty crash in an Italian race cost Stevens a chance for a win.
The kind interpretation of America's feebleness is that the administration is prepared to rise above a nasty little snub to keep the hope of a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian peace alive.
The expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the beginning of a 3.8% surcharge on investment income are combining to deliver a nasty punch to people who sell assets at a gain.
The visitors lost their skipper to a nasty looking injury but were soon celebrating when a thunderous Hughes free kick flew through a ruck of bodies and eluded Balogh to find the net.
When the regional crisis hit, Malaysia was not only in the middle of a nasty property glut, but was suffering from a credit explosion, with total bank credit expanding by 34% in 1997 alone.
That's because the viral approach is spreading a nasty Web infection known as Third Voice, a startup firm's free software that lets users view a Web site and paste their own snarky little broadsides on top.
Nor is there much worry about a potential nasty side-effect of a booming current-account surplus: rising inflation.
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Moreover, Apple is locked into a nasty legal battle with Samsung which happens to be a formidable competitor offering 80 different smart phone models.
In an unremarkable office building one floor above, Edward Anderson ignores a nasty head cold and scrutinizes the expense budgets of a handful of private companies.
He acknowledges a modernising, meritocratic, free-trading side to the state, but sees the Texas that spawned Mr Bush as a nasty brew of aristocracy, racism and militarism, with a strong seasoning of Protestant fundamentalism.
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