"Insurance people are naturally conservative in the bad sense of the word, " Goodman says with a shrug.
One of the more tiresome tropes of current times is that speculation is in some sense bad.
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Big stores, with economies of scale, still make sense in bad times.
It helps in some ways because some people are scared of you and won't start on you or anything, but then it's bad in the other sense that people will start on you for it.
Not that he smelled bad, but that his sense of smell was as acute as a canine's.
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Unemployment could hit 20% next year and common sense suggests a bad-debt problem will eventually hit the banking system.
Since Apple has fallen behind in OLED technology, it makes sense for Apple to bad mouth OLEDs while behind the scenes scrambling to catch up.
Jim, well, what about there's a way that this bad news is good in a sense, because I recall, over the summer, part of the great uncertainty, part of the reason there was a crisis is that nobody seemed to know how much money was being lost and how much risk was out there.
While that might be viewed as good news in one sense, it's bad news for other areas of IT budgets where companies are foregoing spending.
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The winning project, Milkmaid, is a quart size glass milk jug that can sense when your milk will go bad.
However a JFSC spokesman said it did not suggest all business from Cyprus was automatically bad but firms needed to filter with common sense.
They provide a sense of how long good and bad times will last and how value migrates within an industry, and they thereby let companies continually assess their strategies' relevance.
"We do not get the sense that we are forcing these bad guys to change their methods because we have shored up all the holes and security problems, " said Mr Baker.
Among others still, there is the sense that this may be no bad thing, that only sustained international involvement offers the prospect of real peace, and if the Russians are really now working together with the Americans, their presence may even be desirable.
Affirmative action, no less than any other form of discrimination, is a bad idea which for a brief time made some sense.
"It gives you a sense of comfort that things are not bad, but we have to wait till June to get a proper picture, " said Madan Sabnavis, chief economist at Care Ratings.
Otherwise, anticipate all outcomes, estimate their probabilities, and clearly communicate those odds. (This goes for leaders and minions alike.) Too many bad surprises create uncertainty and, eventually, a sense of dread, like February in Chicago.
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Sometimes the pregnancy was from an accident or bad luck, or too much passion and not enough sense.
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Dido calls it "my bleakest song ever", written about "a really bad" experience that she couldn't "make sense of".
As such, this is one of those rare occasions where the market makes sense as good economic news is good and bad news, is, well, bad.
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Ryan Alexander, the president of the Taxpayers for Common Sense, pointed out that not all earmarks are bad.
The report also said there was a sense that senior management did not want to hear bad news, and that the employees should instead solve problems on their own.
So it's too bad David's actions don't make a lot of sense, at least not to this perplexed viewer, who couldn't be sure if the robot was following orders or following his own agenda.
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.
In that sense, a cynic might think it was a " good day to bury bad news".
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