As a rule, the bigger and scarier bear markets have been, the bigger the floodgates have opened toward this sentiment--this view that the new problems are just too big and bad to overcome.
And yes, Apple is big enough and bad enough to make it happen if they should so wish.
The prospect of acquired perfection lies behind many big ideas and most bad ones.
Apple is taking that supposedly wasted cash hoard and kicking serious ass while the rest of the computer industry sits around sucking its thumb and starts complaining about big, bad Apple cleaning up components and shutting them out.
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Like Bateman and Reynolds, Timberlake has two big movies this summer: Bad Teacher and Friends with Benefits, which co-stars Mila Kunis.
"Marky was partial to a few drinkies, but he was a kind man with a big heart and never had a bad word to say about anyone, " a statement read.
There is not small-town America is good and big-town America is bad.
Big companies and old industries are notoriously bad at changing their ways and giving up control, even when obvious opportunities argue for embracing openness and change.
But rather than openly argue for tax harmonization and other policies that would lead to higher taxes and a loss of fiscal sovereignty, they think they will have more luck expanding the power of government by employing demagoguery against the big, bad, multinational companies and small, low-tax jurisdictions.
Unlike the right, where Republican voters tend to gather around the GOP flag even if they have to hold their noses while doing so, the left voter is still convinced that a third party candidate can somehow come on board and make things just and right in this big bad world.
We are very nervous and excited about the "BIG BAD DEADLINE".
The rise, an increase of 95% on the same quarter in 2012, came as HSBC reported a big fall in losses from bad debts and provisions for other risks.
This thing is basically an AWD Focus with a big hat, and that's not a bad thing.
Arlen Shenkman and I have been involved in a number of large deals over the years, and we have seen how boards can make a big difference, for good or for bad, depending on how well they manage their roles and their oversight.
In countries such as Portugal, Greece and Ireland, where big government deficits have to be cut back, loan growth is likely to decline and bad loans to increase as economies slow.
Big pharma is in a bad fix--and companies are increasingly turning to good cholesterol as the solution.
Miyauchi told a Japanese daily recently that he thought the economy had bottomed out a year ago and he wasn't expecting such big additional bad-loan provisions this year.
Butchers like Tony are optimistic that bad news for the supermarkets and big-name brands could translate into better business for smaller, locally-owned enterprises, hit hard by the BSE crisis and competition from big out-of-town shopping centres.
First, Facebook is big, and as the FTC-Google investigation illustrates, big increasingly triggers antitrust scrutiny even without any evidence of bad conduct.
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But when these people fail, it means that something bad has happened and this has a big negative effect on their job satisfaction.
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But what's bad for the radiologist and all the big companies selling him new equipment--General Electric, Siemens and Philips--is good for everyone who foots the bill.
This may be bad news to many urban pundits and big city speculators, but it also should create new opportunities for more perceptive, and less jaded, investors.
He scans the reported big gainers and losers each day and looks for overreactions to bad news or even something as simple as a company being removed from a major stock index.
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But what's bad for the radiologist and all the big companies selling him new equipment--General Electric, Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) and Philips--is good for everyone who foots the bill.
That shows up on the big hospital chains' profit-and-loss statements, where bad debt levels have almost doubled to 10% of revenue since 2000.
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And sort of a good news, bad news big story of the week, with the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis report on preliminary 3rd Qtr.
There are some seriously dodgy lines and bad haircuts but the film climaxes with "Big Wednesday, " the biggest swell to hit the Californian coast in years.
Citi remains heavily exposed to housing drag with toxic assets souring the balance sheet, and there still could be substantive blowback for big banks holding bad European government debt.
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