It's just economic times are bad, and so everything is getting tightened down.

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He was so focused on smiting bad guys that he lost track of everything else.

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Politicians with bad news announcements or scandals to drop will invariably do so during the Olympics because they know everything will be buried beneath the avalanche of athletics.

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