Which leads to the question: Why, after a single bad year, are investors considering abandoning them?
But in Minneapolis, even in a bad year, the economy was doing just fine.
Thermo is having a bad year, and its shares have dropped 67% since January.
At 68 fund closures so far, 2012 is turning into a bad year for JELL-O fans.
Despite some good news, 2012 was a bad year for the economy and for businesses.
The more responsible publications will, after a bad year, own up to their performance.
This will keep happening until they have a bad year, when clients will desert them.
It has been a bad year for most countries in the former Soviet block.
Just as important, in a bad year, mutual funds can't distribute their net losses to their holders.
Chambers keeps on his office wall a check for 38 cents, his bonus for that bad year.
"It's a worse than average (flu) season, and it's a bad year for the elderly, " Frieden said.
"I guess if I go this year without a major, it will be a bad year, " he said.
It was also a bad year for insects, with knock-on impacts for fruit and crops which they pollinate.
Since the end of that generally bad year, the timing of Skilling's departure has been a matter of conjecture.
While musicals are the big moneymakers on Broadway, by no means has it been a bad year for plays.
It revved up a 42% advance in an otherwise bad year for automobiles.
Muammar Gaddafi Was Killed. 2011 was a bad year for terrorists and tyrants.
Amazingly, it was not a bad year for the 21st century airline industry.
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But hedge fund managers are not just guilty of having one bad year.
Now that a bad year has arrived, this effect has gone into reverse.
Africa's safety record improved in general, though the Democratic Republic of Congo had a particularly bad year with three accidents.
Now to another ailing wing of the entertainment industry. 2007 has been a particularly bad year for record sales, especially hip-hop.
If the fund is doing poorly relative to similar type funds, the fund manager could just be having a bad year.
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Since the pay of these plutocrats is highly variable, a bad year for them means a bad year for the taxman.
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Investors have stuck with hedge funds through rough times before and have shown they are willing to forgive one bad year.
The drama unfolded on New Year's Eve, a day the Kennedys spent celebrating the fact that another bad year had finally ended.
But there's no denying it's been a bad year for big-budget comedies.
By comparison, 1994 could be considered a bad year given the averages.
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