In fact, In an Alice of Wonderland world, because it takes more billable hours to get a bad idea revised before it is brought up front to customers, Advertisers actually reward an agency more when it comes up with a bad idea.
Starbucks' saturation approach to expansion is no different than, say, McDonald's or Gap (nyse: GPS - news - people ), but it seems to get a bad rap for it.
But in a civilized society, the priority should be to make sure the people that need help get it, not to stop the few bad eggs from sitting pretty.
Trying anything to get a little better, and it just went from bad to worse.
It starts to get out of control pretty bad, and I think you learn from that, you learn to keep your head on a swivel.
If the only result of these developments in the U.S. capital markets is to make it more difficult for global bad actors to get the funds with which to finance their odious operations around the world, the effort would be worthwhile.
Helping them to close their books in September would not deal with the banks' basic challenges: how to write off bad loans and where to get the money to do it.
When they get an opportunity it is ingrained in them to play by numbers, so you see them returning a bad kick with another bad kick, and it is very difficult to get out of.
As the people in these countries get richer, it brings good news and bad news to Americans.
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How bad does it have to get before you get treatment, and for that matter, what is the treatment?
It streamlines disciplinary procedures to get rid of bad teachers, and adds an extra 20 minutes to the working day.
When they get sick or hurt, they tough it out and hope for the best, and when things get bad enough they head to the emergency room.
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While in and of itself investing in children is not a bad thing, sometimes it can get to be too much of a good thing.
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He responded that it would be a bad business to get into, noting that the margins on television are far lower than the margins Apple makes from its other devices and that consumers don't buy new televisions very frequently, according to this person.
And it's unfortunate that things had to get bad before they could get better.
Again, the end of privacy makes it harder to do bad things (and get away with them).
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You need only look at the relationship between Apple and Adobe to see how bad it can get.
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But the divide between this city and the rest of the country is at least as bad -- and it seems to get worse every year.
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Of course it is just as bad an idea to get caught up in the optimism and to buy indiscriminately especially with the major averages now at more important resistance.
The macro news from Japan has been bad lately, and it is certain to get worse.
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"My honey said, 'We have to get out of here before it gets really bad, '" Mr. Box recalled.
Jakarta also assured that depositors would get paid, and it used IBRA to assume many of the bad debts of local lenders.
In the long term it may not be such a bad thing to get people thinking about fuel efficiencies and even using public transportation rather than driving everywhere they have to go.
One might expect that at the ripe old age of 100 the company would be creaking along with brittle bones, weak knees, a bad heart, and finding it hard to get up in the morning.
There are policies all over Europe that protect people from over-indebtedness, that regulate credit cards and make it very difficult for people with bad credit to get things like this that allows them to go over their heads and become over-indebted.
Sometimes if you have bad luck, you must force your luck to get it back.
Today a bad credit score can make it even harder to get bank financing for starting or expanding a business.
Too bad it could take as long as five days to get the results.
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In addition, new accounting rules would make it easier to get an overview of the scale of the banks' bad debt problem, according to the draft.
When serious bad guys get nabbed for a minor crime, it provides an opportunity to check for outstanding warrants on them and get them off the streets.
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