Some investors say his companies' stocks trade lower because of his bad attitude.

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When you feel stressed or powerless, you sometimes have a bad attitude.

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So bad attitude and inaccuracy seem to go together.

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Sitting about a half-inch lower on its suspension, and shrouding outrageous 20-inch alloys and Pirelli P Zeros in the wheel wells, the XKR-S looks like what it is: a huge, privileged brat, an upper-class lad with a bad attitude and mouth like a vulcanized black bass.

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These diseases of attitude inevitably translate into bad decisions.

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If even a few are bad-mouthing you or simply exhibit a meh attitude your brand is getting tarnished.

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You'll have to read the Times profile for the full story, but whether or not NTP acted ethically (or illegally), or preyed on Goodfellow's disdain for patents or his free-market attitude isn't exactly making the bad taste in our mouths from the settlement taste any better.

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Nobody likes a bearer of bad news, a Gloomy Gus or a glass-half-empty attitude.

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Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, said Mr Mitchell's resignation was a "sensible decision", adding that "letting it carry on like this sent a very bad signal to the police and public servants across the country about the government's attitude".

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So the analyst who said the hoodie shows I-don't-give-a-damn attitude was right in one sense, but he was wrong to suggest Zuckerberg's hoodie was bad news for Facebook investors.

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