The Securities and Exchange Commission has had a very bad couple of months.
Not bad for a couple in their early 40s, with one kid at Ohio State.
Not bad for a couple in their early forties, with one kid at Ohio State University.
Not bad for a couple of guys with no computers back in 1981.
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"I was so bad the first couple months, half of the set my amplifier would be on minimum volume, " he grins.
Nah, we don't expect the video nor audio quality here to live up to the standards set by more luxurious offerings, but this doesn't look half bad for a couple Benjamins.
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"I've had a couple of bad months with not being in the Test side, " said the 26-year-old.
"Tom is really taking the blame for a couple of bad acquisitions, " said mining analyst John Meyer.
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Just a couple of bad reviews and a few weeks of audience figures.
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And after toying with a couple of bad ideas, the delegates also managed to leave the constitution in good shape.
"When you go to Ibrox after a couple of bad results and performances, you fear the worst but now everyone is buzzing, " added Jefferies.
What followed was a couple of bad days on the hard courts of Dubai and Miami, which can happen to any player, but the clay-court season was always going to be his biggest challenge.
Hendry was showing a few signs of end-of-match nerves and a couple of bad misses let Ding in again who cut in a marvellous black before clearing to claim a fully-deserved frame to make it 11-9.
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The jargon of transition and exit ramps, and an 18-month target to begin withdrawal unfortunately tells our enemies to persevere through a couple of bad fighting seasons, because the Americans, or at least their leaders, do not have the determination to succeed.
So while I spent my weekends writing essays with a room full of Poindexters who preferred the thrills of multiple choice test taking to tossing around a sports ball, I maintained a healthy social life, which, to my naive mind, also meant picking up a couple of bad habits.
The system became so inefficient and was made so fragile by waste that a relatively minor setback a couple years of bad harvests caused widespread hunger and revolt.
"He's been in a bad place for rehab the last couple of years, " says Markoff.
Bad news started to dampen good a couple of weeks back and it looks like a trend.
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So, hopefully, as long as it doesn't blow up overnight and get too bad, it will just be a couple days.
When I was in college and I was young, you read these great novels that have these ambiguous, artsy endings what happened to who, where did the bad guy end up, is the couple staying together?
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They're arguing that nothing bad happened to Enron, except with a couple of people that were lining their own pockets.
Now, in the last couple weeks it looks like repeated bad news coming out of Europe is having less impact.
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It wasn't too bad - hands in the air, a couple of finger clicks, and a big wave to the camera.
The bad news is that it could be another couple of years before U.S. auto sales top 16 million again, analysts said.
There is still looting going on, but it is not as bad as it has been over the past couple of days.
So if you have a couple mistakes, you know, you play bad, and that's it, you go home, you know?
The amount of new gilts it would have had to issue a couple of years ago to set up the bad bank was prohibitively great.
Too bad for Herman Cain that day still seems at least a couple of decades remote.
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