They said it was lousy, and it was.

You don't master feeling lousy about one thing.

This is not about lousy marriages, this is not about jobs that suck.

And he does manage to find them, but great navigation skills, lousy pick up lines.

Egad, man! Look at the quality of the free paper compared to your lousy regular paper!

Those with great technology and lousy marketing will find others with lousy technology and great marketing. The companies with back end standards will create interfaces to a couple of the leading applications then other applications will tie themselves into those back ends.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

In our country, it's the kids that need it the most, who get this really, really lousy food.

Because if you do many things you get to feel lousy about everything, and not just one, you know.

But, here with kludgy material, and lousy drink we've been able to measure the speed of sound to not bad. Pretty good.

It may seem ridiculous, but we have a really lousy history of anticipating things like this and actually being prepared for them.

For the first time in human history, talented students don't have to have their potential and their dreams written out of history by lousy teachers.

Also a wonderful byproduct of sort of a really lousy thing, which has been unemployment, is a rise in volunteerism that's been noted in our country.

And he had a big jar full of placebo pills that he would give them, and he'd say, Come back in a week, if you still feel lousy.

That makes me bow down to any woman in front of me to give full respect. That five days I'll never forget the messy days, the lousy days, that wetness.

So in planning to be a professional naturalist I never considered anything else in my entire life I found that I was lousy at bird watching and couldn't track frog calls either.

The online car service Uber adapted existing technologies to transform a long sheltered industry that too often provided lousy and expensive service. Airbnb s supply of rooms far exceeds anything to which traditional hotels could reasonably aspire.

And here's this really sophisticated technology coming down the road, all these associated social, moral, ethical questions, and we scientists are just lousy at explaining to the public just exactly what it is we're doing in those labs.

Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon points out several interesting features of America's GDP that should give cheerleaders of the US model and critics of Europe cause for greater circumspection. For example, Americans must buy cars because public transport is so lousy.

Why were the risk controls at highly leveraged money center universal banks so lousy? Why weren t central banks and governments willing and able to step up and maintain the flow of aggregate demand as the financial crisis and its aftermath choked off private investment and consumption spending?

BERKELEY Perhaps the best way to view a financial crisis is to look at it as a collapse in the risk tolerance of investors in private financial markets. Maybe the collapse stems from lousy internal controls in financial firms that, swaddled by implicit government guarantees, lavish their employees with enormous rewards for risky behavior.

In one sense, we should be grateful for our hard working M A technicians, well paid as they are it is important that businesses with lousy managements or that operate inefficiently be under pressure from those who may do better, and can raise the money to attempt to do so. We cannot rely on shareholder democracy as our only system of corporate control.

In one sense, we should be grateful for our hard working M amp A technicians, well paid as they are it is important that businesses with lousy managements or that operate inefficiently be under pressure from those who may do better, and can raise the money to attempt to do so. We cannot rely on shareholder democracy as our only system of corporate control.

On the Democratic side, the same sorts of hacks and PR men focused like a laser beam on the bad employment news of the George W. Bush years, ignoring the good news about output and productivity. And, again, Republicans responded tendentiously, by focusing on the unemployment rate rather than on the job numbers as if it were a good thing that the lousy labor market since 2001 has artificially depressed the number of people looking for work.