He further observed that as bad as things have been, a diversified portfolio (meaning holding stocks and bonds) would have produced positive returns.
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But as bad as things may have seemed for you and your family, I assure you, it could have been a lot worse.
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You might find that overall, as bad as things may be at the moment, you have much to be grateful and thankful for that may turn your outlook in a more positive direction.
Yet, bad as things are, sex selection may slowly be turning around.
In other words, bad as things seem, they will get better at some point and not even a perspicacious professor is likely to know when.
But in neither case are things as bad as they were in the autumn of 2008, when Lehman fell and no bank seemed safe.
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As they say, bad things happen in three.
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I'll tell you floods, tornadoes, fire etc all those bad things as well as the sea rising and all the polar bears etc and the rainforest getting destroyed so basically global warming is the end of the world and the end of the world will happen one day even if you recycle one million bottles.
But if he treats his pastime as a hobby, two bad things happen.
As that occurs, increasingly bad things start to happen to the company.
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She is confident we haven't hit another Depression and that we've learned enough lessons from the past to avoid letting things get as bad as they were before.
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But with the way the political parties have been bickering back and forth at each other over the summer, I was getting the feeling that things were as bad as they could possibly be.
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All troubling for Citigroup, yet one contrarian in the market thinks things are not as bad for it as they might appear.
As if things weren't bad enough for Silicon Valley tech companies, now some are being forced to buy their buildings high and sell low.
That things really are as bad as the buyout number reflect.
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So, we are suggesting that if things got about as bad as they did in and around the collapse of Lehman then an automatic guarantee is tripped.
Things are not as bad as they used to be: it took a century for Australia's states to adopt the same railway gauge, and the rules for road haulage have only fairly recently been unified.
As if things were not already bad enough, the World Health Organisation confirmed last month that an outbreak in Nigeria of polio, a crippling child disease it had hoped was on the brink of being eradicated, had reached Darfur.
Mr Bartlett believes that things are no longer as bad as people think.
Now Germany, too, is exhibiting some of the same signs of complacency, a belief that things aren't as bad as the doom-mongers predict.
When things look bad, as in Malaysia, the guidelines become rules.
Themed "Life Comes at You Fast, " it featured celebrities such as Kevin Federline and Fabio showing the bad things that can happen to people when they aren't prepared.
He was an optimist, a good person to have around when things looked bad, as they had four months earlier when the Russians had sent up their Sputnik.
The week before I'd been talking to customers, advising them on transactions and even reassuring some customers that things might not be as bad as the media was reporting.
Of course things are not yet as bad as Zittrain seems to claim, and though I don't often agree with noted free market advocate and libertarian Adam Thierer, his critical review on the Progress and Freedom Foundation blog is well-argued and often insightful.
As I said, when things go bad, you need someone in your corner to advocate for you, someone with both knowledge and access to the reservation systems, and you certainly cannot count on the airlines, even if you are a loyal longtime regular customer.
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The Clinton White House said things equally, not quite as bad, but pretty bad about me.
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