| The nation that was once known as the breadbasket of Africa quickly became, according to economists, a basket case. |
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| How, exactly, does a country in such a prosperous position end up a basket case? |
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| Are you more likely to become one of the growing number of Irish millionaires or a financial basket case? |
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| It is not hyperbole to say that the derivatives industry is looking increasingly like a basket case, or at the minimum a potential accident. |
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| The company is struggling against its competition but it is no basket case. |
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| Seven years ago, the airline had been a flying basket case, a perennial money loser facing a third go-round in bankruptcy court. |
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| Yeah, I'm all cool and collected and efficient when I'm helping a friend pack, but when it's me I'm a basket case. |
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| So, what have we learned, except that I'm more or less a completely conflicted emotional basket case? |
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| Just before my injection, I became an emotional basket case and made a fool of myself. |
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| I am a basket case who doesn't know what to believe about myself, or her anymore. |
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| One of the country's top economists has rejected the popular view that the economy is a basket case and is headed for trouble. |
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| I am working very hard not to be a basket case, but doing an extremely poor job. |
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| It's not the financial basket case it's been painted as, but it does need to be modernised to meet future challenges. |
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| I don't want my husband's friends talking about how his wife is a basket case. |
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| Indonesia, once a regional basket case, has also made great strides in cleaning up its bank and corporate sector, which are beginning to attract foreign suitors again. |
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| Didn't you run her ragged emotionally, make her a basket case? |
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| Describe her as a basket case, and she nods her acquiescence. |
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| The country was a basket case in terms of its fiscal situation because of the pathetic performance of the previous Conservative government. |
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| It turned us from what the economists referred to as an economic basket case. |
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| Mr. John Reynolds: Madam Speaker, to say that Canada was a basket case is an embarrassment to me as a member of Parliament. |
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| We go back to 1995 when the New York Times said that we were a basket case. |
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| There was a time in 1993 when our debt to GDP ratio was so bad that others around the world were referring to Canada as an economic basket case. |
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| In 1993 we inherited the fact that we were on the verge of becoming a basket case before the other nations of this world. |
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| First, it is crucial to clarify that Haiti is neither hopeless nor a basket case. |
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| But I will tell you Mr. Speaker what is an economic basket case, and the real economic threat to our future. |
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| Ask me to read in front of people now, and I become a basket case. |
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| I've never seen her as any kind of basket case or to be pitied. |
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| He is a total basket case, almost suicidal and drinking heavily. |
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| The country is a basket case and needs to be left to its own devices. |
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| The economic indicators show this mineral rich country is a basket case. |
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| If not for the writing and singing of songs, she might very well be a basket case. |
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| The father's extramarital activities are beginning to wear on his marriage, and the mother is a basket case trapped in the iron grip of her domineering queen bee of a mother. |
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| To put things in context, the economy that we inherited from our Conservative predecessors exactly 12 years ago this week was very nearly a basket case. |
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| Canada was identified as the basket case of the G-7 at that time. |
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| For seven years we have managed to reduce a trend of deficit spending which would have critically hurt our country and turned Canada into a basket case. |
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| It was not long ago when the Wall Street Journal referred to Canada as a third world economic basket case because of the damage done by the previous Conservative government. |
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| Given the fact that the New York Times in 1994-95 suggested that Canada was an economic basket case, we have done not too bad given the fact that we have had eight balanced budgets. |
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| Still, we were glad to be reunited with the industrious hum of our own companion, for who is a rider without his chopper or his hog, her bobber or basket case? |
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| I do not think Ethiopia deserves to become the latest African basket case. |
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| In his remarks Premier Tobin made very clear that although many people in Canada think the fisheries is a basket case that is not the case at all. |
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| Today, the entire infrastructure of the Serbian economy, already a financial basket case before the air war ever started, is being destroyed. |
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| This country is a financial basket case, a country so broke that it should be a perfect warning to lenders. |
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| Robert Mugabe's dreadful dictatorship has turned the country into an economic basket case with inflation last recorded at 89,700,000,000,000,000,000, 000 per cent. |
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| Basket Case is a bitter-sweet drama, which centres around a family as their dog is being put down. |
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| Basket Case is at the New Theatre, Cardiff, from tomorrow until Saturday. |
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