Sentences with phrase «worse than balancing»

But for most people, it's a chore worse than balancing the check book.

Not exact matches

But according to several former employees, the situation inside the company may be far worse than what's reported on balance sheets.

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

«With prices rising more than 5 percent between the 2007 and 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances, balances have fared even worse in real terms,» notes the study.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

It's a balancing act and some cities are more conservative than others, it's not a bad thing it is just different.

I have heard great preaching, awful preaching, and everything in between - though I am happy to report that on balance I have encountered more good preaching than bad.

Pie crust isn't better than the filling, but it isn't worse either, and every bit of it, including the thick crimped edges, is necessary to balance all the filling.

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And to balance out that good news, Manuel Pellegrini has been hit with the bad news that his Spanish play maker David Silva has not recovered and even worse than that, Silva has been joined in the treatment room by their club captain and best defender Vincent Kompany.

After five years of watching bad science, defensiveness from both sides, and extremist advocacy rather than balance, I've written an article which is an appeal for nuance on the issue of low carbohydrate diets.

Arsenal badly need defensive balance away from home, where they have won just three times and conceded 24 goals — more than bottom side West Brom.

That would be good news for Derby's bank balance, but the bad news is City see Hughes as a capture to play now rather than return him to Pride Park.

Several other companies, such as Baby Balance, were found to make products high in saturated fats and sugars worse than junk food.

As the Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman J. Ornstein have declared (see It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism), the current Congressional polarization is not a balanced polarization; it is rather «asymmetrical» with the GOP extreme right the stronger player.

In 2008, during a BBC One This Week interview between Abbott, Michael Portillo and Andrew Neil about who was history's worst dictator, Abbott said about the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong: «I suppose some people will judge that on balance Mao did more good than harm... He led his country from feudalism, he helped to defeat the Japanese and he left his country on the verge of the great economic success they are having now.»

We're learning that a healthy balance of «good» gut bacteria relative to the bad ones is critical to well being in more ways than we've ever known.

Our gut flora, when in balance has a lot more good bacteria than bad (pathogenic) bacteria.

«Once you've completed the Balanced and Clear program, you'll always know what you need to do to feel great again should you find yourself sliding down that slippery slope toward less - than - ideal eating and feeling kind of bad.

Rather than thinking about whether certain nutrients from traditional diets are good for us or bad for us, we should seek to understand how they all work together in proper balance to promote radiant and vibrant health.

Rather than label foods as «good» or «bad,» what if we sought balance across the board?

If you have twisted your ankle in the past, chances are that your balance on the side you injured is worse than the side that was never injured.

Cow & Gate called back two days later and admitted that their Baby Balance Bear Biscuits do contain trans fats, but they assured our researcher that trans fats aren't any worse than saturated fats and that it is the whole diet that matters.

Our skin hosts trillions of bacteria good ones and they thrive in the slightly acidic environment on the skin (yes this means that baking soda baths are pseudo science / logic never ingest or bath in Baking soda it will screw up your PH even your intestines are acidic that is why vinegar works so well to balance the flora of our gut) Worse comes worse you skin will start to tear and your skin can become prone to flesh eating bacteria (yes in theory dabbing Apple cider vinegar would be the best cure than antibiotics) I have been searching high and low for anyone who has found a way to get Mg through an alternative preparation like mixing it with apple cider vinWorse comes worse you skin will start to tear and your skin can become prone to flesh eating bacteria (yes in theory dabbing Apple cider vinegar would be the best cure than antibiotics) I have been searching high and low for anyone who has found a way to get Mg through an alternative preparation like mixing it with apple cider vinworse you skin will start to tear and your skin can become prone to flesh eating bacteria (yes in theory dabbing Apple cider vinegar would be the best cure than antibiotics) I have been searching high and low for anyone who has found a way to get Mg through an alternative preparation like mixing it with apple cider vinegar.

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In the email you mentioned the following: «Recent research has found that you need to feed one key bacteria to keep your hormones balanced more than you need to kill off the bad ones.

The program can identify 90 % of images with a human face, even profiles and unfocused blurs, and improves bad color balance to create a much better head shot than the single sent in.

Too bad the tweaks to the time - tested gameplay (smarter bodyguards, more balanced weaponry, etc.) and handful of new gameplay modes (Bridge Melee) are beginning to show more desperation than innovation or creativity.

Even as Corden proves to be a smart voice - casting choice, ably conveying the essential goodness behind the less - than - exemplary behavior, the written character fails to strike the desirable balance between impish and bad - ass.

Sure, the chili - dog - scarfing hedgehog has suffered his share of embarrassing missteps in recent years, but the bad has been more than balanced out by solid titles like Sonic Colors, Sonic Lost World, and the nearly - great Sonic Generations.

By no means is having a balance a bad thing but this felt more like indecisiveness than anything.

Gringo has more dramatic heft than you'd expect — again, not a stoner comedy — and Oyelowo balances the grimmer parts of Harold's experience with a natural buoyancy that makes him a tremendously likeable character even as he is making increasingly bad decisions.

Teachers in faith - based schools say they have the worst work - life balance, with 74 per cent reporting a typical week is «less balance than they would like» or «not balanced at all».

The district's English learners scored worse than the state average for English learners on the Smarter Balanced tests, with only three percent exceeding or meeting English language standards and only five percent doing so in math.

When we talk about debt, most of the time we're referring to the «bad» kind: student loans with balances greater than your annual salary, or consumer credit card debt.

I came away from this book with a more balanced view of US politics — many of those I like came off worse, and those I did not like were shown to have been better than I thought — with the exception of Lincoln, who in hindsight seems to be a radical in most senses.

When a credit card account has been delinquent for more than 180 days, banks will charge off what is owed as «bad debt» and sell the account to a debt collector who will call, harass and even sue if the past due balances are high enough.

Even when securing a debt consolidation loan with bad credit, the loan sum is enough to clear all of the card balances and because the interest rate is smaller, and the loan term is longer, the size of the required monthly repayment is much lower than the combined minimum repayment sums.

These files contain information such as the account number, the outstanding balance, and a nine - point rating scale, for example: R1 indicating that payment was made on time; R2 that payment was made 30 days late, but not more than 60 days; and R9 indicating a bad debt or one that has been placed for collection and it < a href =» / personal - bankruptcy / bankruptcy - and - credit - rating /» > also applies to bankruptcy .

If you have a balance of less than $ 2,500, you are in even worse condition, paying $ 10 each and every month.

This leaves them worse off than before, with no loan money and also no available credit balance.

The risks that economic developments could turn out better or worse than forecast are broadly balanced

The loan situation in Texas is not all that bad according to data from the Student Loan Report, but even borrowers who owe less than a fraction of the average student borrower are being targeted for their outstanding balances.

For the case of EverBank, keeping a high balance with it actually isn't a bad option because you are going to get a very competitive rate for your money from the FreeNet Checking Account, probably more than you get from other banks» interest checking accounts.

Depending on the amount of debt you have, and how long it takes to pay it down, this card's offer may be better or worse than other balance transfer cards.

Cardholders with bad credit or who are rebuilding credit (< 650 FICO score) may have more difficulty securing approval, and may need to settle for balance - transfer offers with shorter terms than 15 months, or none at all.

There is less chance of having a bad year than in the balanced or growth options.

First is that the worst possible redemptions are when your balance is just lower than the initial miles column (but the good news is that it's easily fixable by redeeming the «miles to redeem» column and spending enough to get to an optimal breakpoint).

While credit cards for bad credit won't have the lowest APRs on the block, they will usually be less expensive than a short - term loan if you can pay off the balance quickly.

«Rather than spend time on a proposal that, if anything like this administration's previous budgets, will double down on the same failed policies that have led to the worst economic recovery in modern times, Congress should continue our work on building a budget that balances and that will foster a healthy economy,» said House Budget Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R - Ga.