It is no bad thing to try and upset your opponent's bowling plans, but England's first priority should have been to get their own plans right.
Nor is it clear that the region is suffering now from bad (or no) governments.
Pain is the top reason people see a doctor, and there's no way to quantify how bad it is other than what they say.
If you need a modern example of how hard it is to recover from a bad reputation, look no further than Detroit and General Motors.
But if Dell's impending retail push is bad news for HP, it's no slam-dunk for Dell either.
For that matter, it is no certainty the weather next week will be quite so bad either.
So whatever emerges from Southern Cross's crisis must surely be a business whose basic structure is far more robust, where there is no doubt about it's ability to cope in bad times as well as good.
The moral of the story is that there is no magic point where deficit spending leads to a fiscal crisis, but we do know that it is a bad idea for governments to engage in reckless spending over a long period of time.
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But is more often bad, because it means the commission has no natural supporters inside an Administration.
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Groupon for its part has no need for any bad publicity, particularly when it is said to be considering an IPO.
Of course, vast amounts of single-player content in a bad game is no good thing, so it is a relief that Injustice is a fun fighting game with a good balance between diving in and learning the deeper complexities of the systems.
It almost goes without saying that no investment asset is either inherently good or inherently bad.
No matter who is elected, it is never as good, or as bad, as voters expect it to be.
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Europe does not want any Eurozone member to go bankrupt: it looks bad and worse, it demonstrates that being in the Euro-club is no guarantee against financial crisis.
The Man Booker does so much horse trading, has so many arguments, and people talk complete nonsense about it and occasionally choose ridiculously bad books for no good reason, but all of that is done behind closed doors so you never see it.
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It is fair to point out that there were no fireworks over the Bosporus, either: after all the bad-tempered haggling, Turks were not in a mood to rejoice.
As with tainted spinach or lettuce--and even though, as a proportion of the whole, only a minuscule amount may be bad--no one will buy any of it until it's known where the bad produce is.
Unlike smoking where the government can simply say it is bad for you, the message for alcohol has to be much more nuanced as there is no evidence that drinking within recommended levels is harmful and some research has even suggested it may be beneficial to health.
Although the 2011 changes are a welcome loosening of IRS collection rules it is in no way certain that they will result in reduced enforced collection measures by the IRS. The bad economic times have placed more people in the position where it is difficult to timely pay their tax obligations.
My view is that it is best to establish good governance processes, preferably before the IPO happens, so that no one has to break bad habits later on.
No one ever expects to regain the intoxicant levels of the boom years, but neither is it considered necessarily bad to stop living beyond our means on a raft of imported dreams. (It has certainly spelled immediate relief for the environment.) Painful, difficult times allow for painful, difficult changes.
This is a bad idea for an overcentralised country like Turkey, and no other party is likely to accept it.
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