Then it got ugly.

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It got very ugly in the 2000 primaries, both in South Carolina and then even after that.

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"It got a little ugly, " says Ms. Hausman, 44 years old, adding that she ended up buying her partner out.

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Then when Gartner came out and reduced their forecast for PC sales just before 10:00 am, things got ugly and it looked as if the bears were ready to break on through to the other side.

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But apparently it was in 1994 when things got ugly.

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The revenue picture has been ugly for newspapers, particularly the big city national newspapers, and in the last quarter it got only uglier.

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