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Weighed against this, however, must be the chance of being humiliated by a judge, possibly censured, now that the legal system has started blowing the whistle on cases that strain to arrange the ill- fitting garments of criminal law around business defendants.
Angelo Mozilo's Story Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Kevin Eck suggests that perhaps wrestlers' spectacular showmanship is ill- served by the small tightly controlled space of movie sets.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The letter criticized Flash as outdated and ill- suited for the mobile device world.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Aaron Ricadela 2011
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The letter criticized Flash as outdated and ill- suited for the mobile device world.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Aaron Ricadela 2011
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Her experience at consumer-oriented companies such as EBay Inc., Procter & Gamble Co. and Hasbro Inc. may leave her ill- equipped to run Hewlett-Packard's business-computing divisions, said Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc. in San Francisco.
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Ayers said Perry's profile as a social conservative is ill- suited to New Hampshire and that Cain lacks the organization to compete there.
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