It won't be pretty if it happens again, as it could if the war takes a bad turn or the economy continues to limp along.
Bad could turn to worse if Pakistan defaults on its foreign debts.
This will inevitably mean bad news for the banks when some of these loans eventually turn bad.
That could be a limitation if you need to turn of dozens of bad genes at once to turn off cancer.
Our idea was to take hundreds of their bad loans and turn themm into participating loans.
When times turn bad, most corporate investors disappear, and the waves they create crash violently on the shore.
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The second main worry has been whether banks were holding enough capital as a cushion against loans that turn bad.
But the cash you have given away in the good years is much harder to get back from a cash-constrained public when times turn bad.
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The good news is that securitization volumes are increasing, though this method of financing still faces some major challenges, including how to unwind loans that turn bad.
Chairman Sheila Bair told Congress in March that accounting rules don't permit banks to build reserves in a benign economic environment, forcing them to increase them when things turn bad.
Certainly private companies are subject to the same tendency for staff creep, but (as we have seen in this recession) they are fairly ruthless in correcting this when times turn bad.
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Many universities are now saddled with large debts that are likely to turn into bad loans.
Most operate within a web of risk limits, documentation requirements and other rules that make it easy to turn a bad bet into a criminal matter.
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How bad will the disruption turn out to be?
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"It really does need to go to a new level -- these conversations where I'm asking my police chief (to) help me with what we need to understand going into a situation that could turn as bad as Gwinnett County and New York, " said Schwartz, who's also chief of the Arlington County, Virginia, Fire Department.
It was so bad she had to just turn around and refuse to speak with Stevecrest (who's used to that by now).
And we're trying to make them understand that they're not all bad guys, but if you butt stroke one of them with a freakin' thing over their head, they're going to turn into a bad guy and not like you anymore.
Ford and Chrysler aren't as bad off now, but their turn in the box will come.
This would be a bad moment, therefore, to turn away from further liberalisation.
The publican, who has now left the business, claimed a musician failed to turn up due to bad weather, but that the bar normally had live music on that night of the week.
Sometimes these lenders pour good money after bad, praying the condo climate will turn around soon.
In a bad piece of alchemy, print dollars turn into digital dimes.
The ugly fact is that countries that are deep in debt print money to ease this burden which in turn makes their money a bad store of wealth.
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