It isn't immediately clear that a new state formed from Alabama's Seventh Congressional District would be a good thing for its residents.
Perhaps the shrinking state is a good thing in its own right, in which case global market forces deserve a more enthusiastic welcome.
So, while the trade deficit remained large (not a good thing), its slight shrinkage in the third quarter boosted real GDP by one percentage point, down from a net boost of 2.5 percentage points in the second quarter.
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If IPBES is able to deliver on its intentions, it could be a good thing for both the US and business, especially for businesses operating internationally.
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What it has allowed CNN to do is remain profitable when journalism is under seige and reinvest in its people and its resources and that's a good thing.
That globalization has its discontents but is on the whole a good thing.
What this data reveals is that contrary to that expectation, this may well be turning out to be a very good thing for small business and its employees.
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The only good thing about Motel 6 is its potential value as a Cornell case study about the direct relationship between bad hotel sales and marketing and bad hotel security.
What Moody's has done is to narrow the choices available to Germany and its people - and some would see that as a good thing given that the eurozone's financial survival depends on a willingness of Germany to deploy more of its financial resources to the benefit of its over-stretched eurozone neighbours.
Its format mandates conciseness, and conciseness tends to be a good thing when broadcasting information about a fast-moving story.
Its owner, George Aprile, knows a thing or two about good investments.
It also had to agree to make its B Impact Report transparent (the whole thing, with the good news and the bad news) and publicly available on the B Corp website.
While executing a solid strategy is of course a good thing, Wal-Mart is simply too big to execute its way to sustainable growth.
It's a good thing, too, because Kenya's highways are as overpopulated as its cities.
In the case of "Iron Man, " which had its debut even before the popularity of sites such as Twitter, that can be a good thing.
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When an organization becomes very good at something, top of its industry, it usually starts to focus on the thing (product, technology, or business model) that made its success, crowding out other options and points of view.
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For one thing, Japan has a good stockpile of hard-currency reserves, and its people are willing to save domestically at virtually zero interest rates.
Why, on the eve of the Supreme Court announcing its ruling on this, has the administration failed to convince the American people this is a good thing?
But I think the best thing, the good thing is this, there is a lot of attention to this space, its growing the space, its validating extensions to the space.
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Close links to the local people originally seemed a good thing, since the army was supposed to fall back on guerrilla warfare as its second line of defence against an invasion.
After a few weeks of giving this thing a go, I can say that it really does make good on its simple promise: It charges your phone (there are different versions for the iPhone 5, older iPhones, and micro-USB-charged phones), and does so without taking up much space.
"It's a good thing everybody is allowed to have their say, but the FDA has to do its job, " said heart-disease expert Sanjay Kaul, who served as an FDA adviser and voted against lorcaserin.
The good thing is that, if homeowners make a stink, the bathroom usually is restored to its original condition at the decorator's expense.
After falling short of expectations following its somewhat helter-skelter IPO debut, Facebook simply shook off the whole thing and acquired itself some good Karma.
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This is a good thing, having access if only to know what everyone else is hearing, but access has its limitations.
Since Verizon already has country-wide coverage and is making good progress in deploying LTE, the logical thing to do is improve the quality of the network in its footprint.
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Aesthetically, the camera looks a good deal like the S2, maintaining its nice looking design with a couple of key differences -- for one thing, there's an extra bump on the top of the camera -- this is where the integrated GPS lives.
The latter is adamant that it accepts no government funding, while the former does get money from the American taxpayer (and is committed to the view that American leadership is a good thing for liberty), though it has a decent track record of criticising the United States and its friends where appropriate.
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