Since taking on the captaincy our one-day form has been so bad at Kent that we could only go one way.
If the value of a good brand is so obvious, it is surprising that banks have been so bad at developing them.
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From this perspective, one must ask what would have been so bad about letting Bear Stearns, AIG and Citigroup (and in the future, General Motors) go into receivership or Chapter 11 bankruptcy?
On occasions my hands have been so bad that I have had to wear cotton gloves all day, as they are covered in weeping open sores, and it is impossible not to scratch the eczema, as the eczema itch can be like your skin is crawling, and when you have scratched it, it burns like your hands are on fire.
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"I've been beating myself up so bad, " said Dougherty, who has missed three of the last four halfway cuts.
So bad has been the problem of late here in California that the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Commission has just approved a new set of guidelines for pet stores.
It is that we have been living under bad times for so long, and suddenly we are living under good times.
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"We have a few injuries so it's been bad in that respect but we're in the final and we should be celebrating, " said United boss Sir Alex Ferguson.
On this view there might have been a case for changing the Sherman act, so that a bad standard could be dislodged, but there would have been no case under the present law against Microsoft.
And so I'd always been really bad at "Guitar Hero, " but they had "Guitar Hero" there.
"The damage has been so done, it might not be a bad idea to shut down the page and start over, " Mr. Schafer says.
And turning now to Israel, events so far in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian authority have not so far come together so fortuitously, it's been a bad week in the Middle East?
What some may see as alarming about today's significant rises in the interest rate that Italy, Spain, Belgium and France would all have to pay to borrow is there hasn't been any particularly bad news - but even so, investors remain wary about lending to eurozone governments with relatively high debts and a requirement to borrow substantial sums in the coming year.
However, pundits might ask, will that be so bad for a company that has been as vilified as Facebook?
In the last four years we've won twice, reached the semi-final and been runners-up so that's not a bad record.
But insurance bosses have been notoriously bad at telling the two apart, so they have ended up going for market share at all costs.
Growth figures in parts of Asia have been so spectacularly good partly because they were so spectacularly bad in the first half of 2009.
Well so far David it's not been that bad, but General Musharraf has told Colin Powell that the shorter the duration of the conflict in Afghanistan the better it would be for the country.
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As bad as the mortgage crisis has been so far, a collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be much worse, and the government's main goal right now is to prevent that from happening.
So Facebook ( FB) has been getting plenty of bad press and many of us will be saying we should have called the social network bubble.
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Moreover, it cannot be said this is because the recession was so bad, as the experience in America has been the deeper the recession the stronger the recovery.
Of course, he might have been newly appointed, but his command of the English language was so bad that our friend was immediately suspicious.
It obviously helped that the majority of the earnings companies that have reported so far have been better than expected, or conversely, less bad than feared.
Syria is used to having bad relations with its neighbours, but it has never been so isolated as now.
The weather was so bad (in July) that the airports in Cornwall had been closed.
It is bad luck for Mr Gingrich that one of his former wives has been so willing to disparage his fitness for the presidency.
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But he has good years and bad years, and so far this year, he hasn't been on his game yet, so there's a lot of tension whether Alan Webb will come through at the trials.
So far, the lure of more fee revenue has been more tempting than the threat of bad publicity.
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