Specifically, I had hoped that the anticipated addition of the Fed Funds targets of individual FOMC members which I thought was a bad idea would at least weaken their previous collective commitment to keep that rate at its near-zero level at least until mid-2013 which I also thought was a bad idea.
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"I never thought anything bad about police growing up, until I got older, " said Turner, who recently got a GED and is in a work training program.
At first, I thought it was bad luck.
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Sheesh. (Laughter.) I thought Chicago was bad.
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"I expected more hostility from the crowd and it wasn't as bad as I thought, " Stoudemire said.
And even after three months, "sometimes the pain and cramping was so bad I thought I would pass out, " Klawiter said.
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"I thought there was some bad tackles coming in and we were lucky to only come off with two injures, " added Dryden.
"I thought it was a bad charley horse, so I sat down to have a smoke, and the cramps went away, " he says.
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Smoot Hawley made the bad slightly worse, not as I had previously thought, made the not too bad appalling.
So after a while I unsubscribed, and that was the last I thought about Groupon until all the bad publicity started coming in.
It's not as bad as I first thought anyway, but I'm feeling a bit of pain in my knee and the back of my calf and down my shin so we'll see how it is.
Talking through the Wii U specs with my children (not something I often do but they were asking about it) led to them suggesting we did a similar test of controller battery life not a bad idea at all I thought.
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However I thought the USA would already be in a bad place right now 8 months ago so take what I say with a grain of salt.
The first thought in my head was that something bad had happened, so I got very nervous.
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My next thought stems from a recent experience I had involving Dr. Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Pharma.
Pretty soon he'll feel bad because he can't join the Jockey Club, I guess, he thought.
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