Now, what is also true is that the decisions that were made over decades put the U.S. auto industry in a bad spot.
Case in Point A decade ago, Hewlett-Packard, the legendary garage startup of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett, was suddenly in a bad spot facing middle age.
Maybe the US is not in as bad a spot as we think, says Mark Weisbrot, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.
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In many cases, you can spot bad situations before they erupt if you keep an eye on distributable cash flow and the payout ratio.
Unfortunately, traditional endpoint security techniques are not designed to understand the logic behind these attacks the clandestine activity occurring within system processes, those subtle changes necessary to spot potentially bad behavior.
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The current set-up is not all bad: one regulator may spot a problem that another misses.
Critics who dismissed Thai Rak Thai's platform as cheap populism were missing the point: in a country used to receiving policy edicts from on high, a spot of populism was no bad thing.
That spells bad news for retail game stores like Game Spot, although they will continue to do a brisk business in used games.
Why, as Collins was asked the other day, do even competent hitters morph into bad ones when he puts them in the leadoff spot?
Brennan's sending off led to tempers flaring on both benches and players then got involved in a futher spot of pushing and shoving when Shels' Alan Moore produced a bad challenge on sub Peter Hutton.
The FBI document says the information would be used to help it to predict the likely actions of "bad actors", detect instances of people deliberately misleading law enforcement officers and spot the vulnerabilities of suspect groups.
The app doesn't seem to eat up much space (it occupies 4MB on the device), so it appears to be pulling map data OTA. That's a good thing if you're worried about filling up your G1, but bad if you need info quickly or you're not in a data-gettin' spot.
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"It's not that bad, " said carpenter Kevin Byrne, as he dug his car out of its Manhattan parking spot.
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