Honestly, consultants can have a bad reputation.

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While historically, bats have had a bad reputation around the world, in Texas, these nocturnal cave dwellers are loved and cherished.

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Even if someone has lived a perfect, blameless life, someone else with the same name could have a very bad online reputation that impacts the job seeker.

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Brown's tumultuous relationship with singer Rihanna and foul-mouthed Twitter presence have given him a bad boy reputation.

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But just as the majority of single mothers, who are not impoverished, don't deserve to be placed in the victim column, so, too, the majority of ultra-Orthodox Israelis do not deserve to have their reputation besmirched because of the bad behavior of a small, vocal and easily provoked minority.

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Since then, says Joseph Grundfest, a law professor at Stanford University and former commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, directors have realised that failure to sack a bad boss is bad for their own reputation.

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