Selling low and buying high seems to indicate either extraordinarily bad judgment--or an effort to firm the stock price.

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Bad judgment and shoddy data-processing and programming led more money to go astray.

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"Without a doubt, Barack Obama is a talented political orator, but his naive plans for unconditional summits with rogue leaders and support for big tax hikes on hardworking families expose his bad judgment that Americans can ill-afford in our next president, " spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement.

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The McCain ad also accuses congressional "liberals" of showing bad judgment when they pushed for "risky" sub-prime loans and fought against more regulation.

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The press's judgment is that last year's debt-ceiling fight was politically bad for both sides.

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It's one thing to punish those who willfully commit fraud and other well-defined crimes, quite another to jail or ruin people for bad judgment, mistakes or for taking risks that go wrong.

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In contrast, the present generation of Britons, which presumably has never committed adultery, divorce, bad parenting, tree-hugging, overspending or even the odd drag at a joint, delights to sit in judgment on the royals who have.

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Among the most spectacular examples of bad judgment: Sequoia Capital 's seeming refusal to distribute any of its 8 million shares of Etoys, the e-tailer that was going to drive Toys "R" Us out of business.

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