Like a bad environment, this type of temperamental makeup is also like a heavy load on its side of the seesaw.
"We need to be prepared for a bad environment, " Dimon said Wednesday.
"For someone at low genetic risk, being in a bad environment conveys only a modestly increased risk of drug abuse, " says lead study author Dr. Kenneth S. Kendler, professor of psychiatry and human genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
In a Bad News is Good environment, the hope is that weak economic data points will mean continued accommodation from central bankers and policy makers.
Do you have a working environment that allows bad behaviors to take hold and fester?
Detractors, such as Stedman, call all ethanol a bad idea that hurts the environment, hurts the economy and hurts people.
We've been hearing a lot of bad news about the environment such as climate change throwing natural systems out of balance, but things could be looking up slightly.
"I think there are a lot of things in New York that are bad for the environment, like cars and buses, " said Smith, 45, who works in the security field.
The most intriguing political read of the new year so far comes this week from the Huffington Post's political editor Tom Edsall, who interviewed a wide range of Democratic strategists to assess just how bad the environment is for their party heading into 2010.
Chairman Sheila Bair told Congress in March that accounting rules don't permit banks to build reserves in a benign economic environment, forcing them to increase them when things turn bad.
It is possible that these fatal factors could have been avoided by better vetting from DOE, or that removed from the pressures of a fast-paced stimulus environment, DOE may not have made this bad bet.
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The commercial marketplace is a very dynamic environment where all sorts of things can happen unexpectedly, both good and bad.
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The slide in deflation is meanwhile bad news for retail companies struggling to keep pace with consumers' collective expectations of a deflationary environment by rigorously cutting prices.
It rocked the corporate aircraft environment, created a lasting effect on business aircraft optics and resulted in a torrent of bad publicity that equated the company plane with corporate excess.
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Those of you have struggled this far might wonder whether, in an environment of massive private and public debts, a bit more inflation might not be such a bad thing.
In an environment where the free flow of ideas, both good and bad, is encouraged and valued at a premium, the American system often produces an over abundance of information.
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