It won't be pretty if it happens again, as it could if the war takes a bad turn or the economy continues to limp along.
Most operate within a web of risk limits, documentation requirements and other rules that make it easy to turn a bad bet into a criminal matter.
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And we're trying to make them understand that they're not all bad guys, but if you butt stroke one of them with a freakin' thing over their head, they're going to turn into a bad guy and not like you anymore.
This would be a bad moment, therefore, to turn away from further liberalisation.
The second main worry has been whether banks were holding enough capital as a cushion against loans that turn bad.
"It really does need to go to a new level -- these conversations where I'm asking my police chief (to) help me with what we need to understand going into a situation that could turn as bad as Gwinnett County and New York, " said Schwartz, who's also chief of the Arlington County, Virginia, Fire Department.
In a bad piece of alchemy, print dollars turn into digital dimes.
The ugly fact is that countries that are deep in debt print money to ease this burden which in turn makes their money a bad store of wealth.
But the cash you have given away in the good years is much harder to get back from a cash-constrained public when times turn bad.
And more often than not, even with all this preparation it will just turn out to be "a bad day" and a last-minute cancellation will be unavoidable.
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The publican, who has now left the business, claimed a musician failed to turn up due to bad weather, but that the bar normally had live music on that night of the week.
The U.S. complains that Canada does a bad job of screening immigrants, and that in turn, could open a back door to the United States.
Europe's performance is lacklustre at best, and Germany could turn out to have a recession nearly as bad as America's.
That could be a limitation if you need to turn of dozens of bad genes at once to turn off cancer.
Then again, there have been times, when his back was against the wall and the poll numbers were bad, when he's made a decision to turn down the volume and play like things are all cool.
When we get bad news, and the cycle was pointing to a turn, it is all the more reason to shelve any thoughts of buying until a reasonable correction is posted.
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.
All of those things can make for a bad experience and cause a candidate to stop pursuing that company or to turn down a job offer, of he or she gets that far.
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"Turn one was a mess so to finish eighth probably wasn't too bad, " Button said.
The problem was so bad, Nuttall says, that KKR began maintaining a spreadsheet listing opportunities it had to turn down.
The decision about whether to have a defendant take the witness stand can be the most important one in a criminal case, because the entire trial tends to turn on that performance, good or bad, legal experts say.
To turn to a specific, currently relevant example, if fixed-interest bonds are bad, but equity investments are acceptable, then what if an investor buys a non-voting equity instrument whose return is based on profit shared between him and the venture--with any profit above 6% given to the venture as a "reward"?
The company could have continued to litigate the case for years, attempting to prove that it had spoken truthfully about its offshore labor practices, but it understood that every new twist and turn in the litigation would amount to millions of dollars in bad publicity for a company that spent millions trying to build and maintain its brand.
Since taxpayers remain on the hook for pension benefits promised, even if all the pension money is lost as a result of bad investment decisions, they alone will pay the price when dice-rolling decisions of public fund boards turn ugly.
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