"As late as this summer it was really bad, " says Jeff Morgan, President of Graphics Simulation.
"It was like something really bad happened within the family and we needed to wait for time to pass before we could address the issue, " series director Carlos Moreno told the BBC.
Colleen, then 15, continued her life at school, thinking her sister would eventually be OK. "I didn't realize how bad it really was, " she recalls.
"It was definitely right thing to call off the race because visibility was really bad, not just from the rain but also from the sky", the Brazilian said.
Wait, it gets weirder. 2012 was full of really bad marketing campaigns for products or services that did really well.
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"It's really bad, we had flooding seven years ago, but it was nothing like this, " she said.
Now, some of that is unavoidable because they really do need to strengthen -- you know, the banking sector was in bad shape and it was over-leveraged and we really did need to take some steps to shore up the banking system.
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It was a nightmare and it definitely sent me to a really bad place.
When we saw the Corsair 900D at CES we knew we had the enclosure we needed to make the original Hailstorm look like a small mid-tower system and not the bad ass high performance system it really was.
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"It was really strange because the girl I lost to at Wimbledon started this bad run for me, " Baltacha added from her training base in her home town of Ipswich.
How long will it be before even Germans wonder if inflation, their old foe, was really so bad?
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So it would seem that Milton Friedman thinks that the gold standard of 1873 was a really bad idea.
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Or, to put it another way, what really killed the dinosaurs was a string of the most atrocious bad luck.
"As kids we always complemented each other, so if one of us was bad at something, the other one got really good at it, " says Nikolai.
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Andrew George (Lib Dem, St Ives) attempted a synthesis of the two themes: regional pay was bad and Labour had let it happen - but perhaps they hadn't really meant to.
Two weeks after the scan I got stomach pains - it was labour but I didn't realise it - I went to the hospital thinking I just had a really bad stomach ache - the last thing I expected was to go into full labour - I didn't know you could go into labour at 24 weeks - I'd never heard of it before.
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