"It's a bad day for Norway, " he said.

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It's just a bad day.

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"It's not been a bad day, " he enthused.

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Tweeting on the news, Twitter's lawyer Alex Macgillivray described it as a "bad day for the internet".

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That would be a bad day indeed, but it's nothing next to this reader's favorite apocalypse.

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It was a bad day all round for West Ham's forward line as Carlos Tevez went off injured early on and his replacement Zamora was extremely unfortunate to be sent off on 76 minutes after a sliding challenge.

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By contrast, Goldman's value-at-risk the amount it could lose on a bad day and thus a widely used (if imperfect) measure of risk appetite hit a new high last quarter, jumping most in equities, even as stockmarket volatility fell.

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