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Those personal issues—not the broader infrastructure issues that some feared in a worse-case scenario—caused a somewhat lighter turnout among traders on Monday morning.

NYSE Opens for Business After Irene Steve Eder 2011

We're assuming that in a worse-case scenario we might also be subject to evacuation, Norio Hattori, a disaster official in Nihonmatsu, said, adding that he had sent his own daughter to Tokyo.

Fukushima soil contains plutonium traces, according to Japanese officials 2011

Ireland is still trying to solve its banking crisis, which under a worse-case estimate could cost the government € 50 billion, and its deficit for 2010 equalled a staggering 32% of gross domestic product.

Ireland Hopes to Borrow Quentin Fottrell 2011

Spiking bond yields could worsen the bloc's deepening economic downturn, heighten already high anxiety of a sovereign default and in the worse-case scenario, spell an end to the euro itself.

Downgrade Fever Makes Euro Sweat Javier E. David 2011

In time, use combat silhouettes because the concept of self-defense is easier to absorb than the reality, and training should approximate the worse-case scenario.

shotgun for home defense 2009

A key point of controversy was the EBA's decision not to include an explicit default in its worse-case stress scenario.

8 banks flunk European stress test; 16 more barely pass 2011

He caught it between the linebacker and the corner, which, worse-case scenario, he should have been viced in between the two, and for whatever reason he out-flanked the linebacker and then we weren't in position to turn him back to the inside, and they got the big play off of that.

UNC's big first play sets tone for Virginia defeat Steve Yanda 2010

But let's not dwell on worse-case scenarios when we've just received word that the Planters Nutmobile is ready to roll.

Going Nuts in Manhattan Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Consider a worse-case scenario, where we get a double-dip recession later in 2010 (Krugman puts this scenario at 30-40% likely, which I think is high, but I agree we should view the threat as high enough to be taken very seriously).

Matthew Yglesias » Bernanke on Japan 2010

In time, use combat silhouettes because the concept of self-defense is easier to absorb than the reality, and training should approximate the worse-case scenario.

shotgun for home defense 2009