They preferred instead to believe that Bush would never let anything bad happen to us.
Here is the setup of these studies: Take people who have just had something very bad happen to them, like a motor vehicle accident or a rape, and within a few hours or a day or two at most, flip a coin and put half these people on a beta blocker and half on an inactive substance that looks the same (i.e. placebo).
Mr Morrison said many people preferred to believe that bad things only happen to "bad people".
"I watched bad things happen to my father and watched my life disappear, " he said.
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Be patient-bad markets happen and the so-called experts are just offering their subjective opinions.
But if he treats his pastime as a hobby, two bad things happen.
In any market when there is a disconnect between the provider and the customer, bad things happen.
Bad tackles happen but I was disappointed by what Duberry did - or rather didn't - afterwards.
We forget that good people have bad things happen, or were dealt a lot of challenges early on.
All manner of bad things happen to summer interns, even here at Forbes.
Injuries and bad things happen in sports, but we still have to figure out a way to get things done.
The goal is to convey to the subjects that when bad things happen, it doesn't mean they don't belong in general.
At best, Reagan had let big bad things happen behind his back.
Sure, bad bounces happen and, occasionally, the winds of fortune may swing in your favor, but the primary driver of consistent success is practice.
The sad truth about lending: Bad things happen to good companies.
We hope nothing bad will happen and everything will be clear.
In fact, moms with postpartum OCD may be the least likely to harm their babies, since their symptoms revolve specifically around not wanting something bad to happen.
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As a consequence, the meaning of the negative experience is constrained, and people understand that when bad things happen, it's not just them, they are not alone, and that it's something that passes.
As they say, bad things happen in three.
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Bad things happen when a lower dollar fosters inflationary pressures, and as quantitative guessing is unlikely to generate economic growth, rising inflation and rising interest rates are likely to become a rally killer sometime next year.
However, bad things happen to good people.
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