| He adds that the real problem was that ratings agencies slapped AA or AAA ratings on progressively lousier stuff. |
| What's guaranteed to make Europe's lousy situation even lousier is a run on banks in struggling countries that would precipitate their collapse. |
| They all know I have the MS fear in my head because I told them when I just kept feeling lousier and lousier. |
| Once you've started a war without a plan for how to finish it, all the options are lousy — even lousier than they were before, you might say. |
| Studies that confirm a large body of well-established findings are more likely to be sound, but they also make for lousier news. |
| America's lousier schools will now be more accountable, but Mr Bush chickened out of promoting school vouchers. |
