It's a lousy business but we've simply got to solve it ourselves.

"It's a lousy business and a great game," Collins said in an afternoon telephone call.

My wife says it was always a lousy business.

Then she stopped grinning and said, "It's a lousy business, darling.

With business lousy in this part of the world, the easiest thing for people to vent their frustrations at is the local tax bill.

"They said the network business is a lousy business, that you don't want to go into it," he recounted.

But by that time I'd already figured the whole thing was a messy, lousy business and I didn't want to get mixed up in it.

Al's pretty fed up with the whole lousy business too.

As it turned out, it isn't such a lousy business.

In this lousy business, you got to be thinking about disease all the time.