And in a bad economic time, it is bad economic policy to raise taxes on 23 million small businesses, the only sector of the economy growing jobs.
"We're going through a very bad time in arable farming, but that is nothing compared to the hardship the sheep farmers are going through, " he said.
If the decision looked bad enough in real time, replays showed bat and glove firmly tucked behind the batsman's pad, and several inches away from the path of the ball.
What could be more foolish that sinking your emergency fund into stocks and then find that you need it and have to sell off your investment at a particularly bad time in the market?
Twice during the state-by-state tour, Lindbergh was lost in bad weather and each time several hours passed before radio contact with him was reestablished and he was able to let the country know that all was well.
For the first time in a quite long time, there is bad news for natural disasters and good news for those of us forced to endure them.
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Prime Minister Maliki spoke to the nation for about half an hour, repeating the same points time and again: The situation in Baghdad is bad, Iraqis are suffering and time is running out.
Currency devaluation largely avoids dealing with the short-term negative consequences of debt deflation in favor of prolonging the period time that the bad debts remain embedded in the system.
If ClearStream sold out on Wednesday and never got back in, it picked a bad time to leave.
In the course of my time in the law I have seen many bad men, and I have heard evidence about many terrible crimes which have been committed, but I have heard no case more tragic nor more terrible than this one.
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"The game was in a bad state back home this time last year, " added Kearney.
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"It's just a bad time to be in discretionary goods, " says Davidowitz.
This means going back in time, weeding out the bad, and rewriting history in an honest, yet sunny way.
For Mr Osborne himself, this is an especially bad time to be conjoined in the headlines with billionaires and yachts.
"When we're looking at the alcohol figures there's good and bad news in there at the same time, " he told the BBC.
McCAIN: To everyone who, in good times and bad, devoted much time, energy and hope to keeping our candidacy competitive, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
"Companies with enough cash to boost spending on marketing can use a bad time as a period in which to focus on gaining more market share, " Reibstein says.
Although he expects the stock to suffer for some time from the recent bad-news events, he nontheless sees it recovering in due time.
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They understand that there have been a lot of bad habits built up here in Washington and it's going to take time to break down some of those bad habits.
We lived in a house I owned in Fort Greene, a bad neighborhood at the time.
Last time there was bad trouble in the farm belt, in 1990-92, Deere's revenues dropped 15%, and profits just about vanished.
"In our opinion it's not a bad time to take a few chips off the table and review what's happening, " he said.
While this decline is negligible in percent terms, it comes at a bad time, with the Chinese economy growing at a rate close to 8 percent.
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The Yankees were without Kevin Youkilis for the eighth time in nine games because of a bad back.
For the BJP, grappling with an ideological crisis compounded by in-fighting, the report comes at a bad time.
The devastation in Japan, therefore, comes at a particularly bad time, when the larger economies could have used a lift.
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There are two kinds of people at present: those who know in a vague way that the 1930s was a bad time, and those who have studied the detail and understand the economics of why it went bad.
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