He acknowledges that Facebook is top dog in social, but is more than a little blunt in claiming that the online rival is doing a "really bad job" with its products (don't hold back now, Larry).

ENGADGET

If distributed manufacturing and snap-together assembly were really such bad ideas, its American rival Boeing would not have recently adopted the same approach, flying in sub-assemblies to its Seattle base from as far away as Japan and Italy.

ECONOMIST: Airbus

The realization that building more factories, a key strategy for First Solar and its competitors for over five years, had become a really bad idea prompted the company to decide roughly a year ago to spend more money on research, said CEO Jim Hughes during the analyst day.

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Each is considered "Crit-One-R" -- meaning a cable and its twin would have to both fail to make for a really Bad Day.

CNN: Challenger explosion

But Rawlings should embrace all the buzz it generates, both good and bad, if it really wants to insert its name more squarely in the conversation.

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Loaves and Fishes hit a "really bad financial crunch, " Baldwin said, because its federal grants for disaster relief had run out.

CNN: Clientele on the rise at Biloxi soup kitchen

Since its launch, Netflix has been banking on a frustrating but persistent characteristic of the human mind: we are really bad forecasters.

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