The question may be bad form to some, but it has to be asked.
The results are so bad that they call into question Big Pharma's ability to come up with a new crop of cholesterol blockbusters.
But if the scandal was part of a wider NHS problem, it raises the question whether such bad care could be happening now, somewhere else?
The implication, presumably, was that more openness on Facebook would bring more good serendipity, but it just raised the question of whether bad things might happen too.
Miller called the planted question a "bad idea" intended to create an initial IRS apology by Lerner before the story broke with the release of the inspector general's report.
Getting back to Calpers, whether the fund's investment results are good or bad, there is no question they would be better if there was no pay-to-play and if the tens of millions of dollars in placement fees had been paid into the fund instead of to political insiders to influence how its money was doled out.
"The bad press helps us, no question, " Pollick says in his somewhat disheveled office near the docks in Boston.
"No question, we produced embarrassingly bad research, " admits a managing director at a Wall Street firm.
It is an entirely empirical question whether damage caused by bad policy will or will not be outweighed by improvements developed by enterprising people.
The question now is: How bad is it?
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This defensive posturing does create a question for investors: How much bad news is already factored into the markets?
And by the time the closing bell rang at the corner of Broad and Wall, the question of the day was: Bad news?
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Which leads to the question: Why, after a single bad year, are investors considering abandoning them?
But it still seems fair to ask a deeper question: is American politics really that bad?
The question is whether this is good or bad for pupils.
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Since the company has already said that growth for the year will be flat, that giant question mark can only be seen as bad news for investors.
If that were not bad enough, some now fret over the seemingly esoteric question of whether financial troubles, like buses, arrive in convoy.
There is some debate as to how exact defensive statistics are, but there is little question that they separate the good from the bad, especially with a large sample size.
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Real estate lawyers generally conclude that he did nothing illegal, but that the governor might still have held himself to a higher standard of conduct, raising the question of when a savvy business deal becomes bad for his politics.
The budget cuts forced by sequestration may be a bad way to control spending, but there is no question that the Pentagon can reshape its budget to meet current challenges while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds.
If the question is asking how to do something that is bad practice, mention that in your answer, but still actually give an answer.
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As he and other economists acknowledge in a symposium in the July Economic Journal, there is no clear-cut theoretical answer to the question of whether regional trade agreements are good or bad, and the empirical findings are hotly disputed.
ECONOMIST: Do regional trade agreements encourage free trade?
Russell Mittermeier (RM): Yes, there is no question that the Extinction Spasm that we are entering is bad news for us all.
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The question is not whether higher interest rates are good or bad right now but rather: How much higher should they be?
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Lately news-makers have been batting around the question of whether or not home ownership is good or bad for the housing market, the economy, and individuals.
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