Lower-risk funds have the reverse pattern, a bad grade for bull markets but a good one in bear markets.

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When Ms. Avant asked her daughter that evening why she cheated, Kaci said she was afraid her mom would be angry over a bad grade.

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It is now establishing a rating system for good governance, to be launched soon, on the theory that directors will care about the stigma of a bad grade.

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To the shock of anyone who has taught millennials, they (and their parents) think nothing of excoriating a professor with the temerity to give them a "bad" grade (as in, less than an "A").

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Nothing consistently terrible, just a low-grade fever you notice now and then and few bad days here and there.

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That's not bold leadership -- that's bad math. (Applause.) That gets a failing grade.

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We conquered the 15% grade of the treacherous Via Mala (literally, "bad road"), set in a narrow gorge pockmarked by fallen boulders, without so much as a whinny.

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Dale, operating in a modern stone-and-wood restaurant designed by New York's AvroKo, plays with classics, grilling the romaine in a deconstructed Caesar salad, adding Cherry Coke to the sauce in a duck tamale, and marinating sushi-grade tuna in smoky Lapsang souchong tea with, respectively, good, bad, and indifferent results.

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