If something less bad than that occurs, the stocks are at least mildly cheap.
Would it mean that I had less bad news to give about lung cancer?
The more good worms and less bad ones your fish eats, the more points you get.
It was hardly good news, but less bad than much of what the euro zone has seen recently.
As long as no meaning is lost, fewer and shorter words are always less bad than the alternative.
He said the review was much less bad than it might have been.
Even so, some locals view Mr Bussi as less bad than his predecessors.
In these circumstances a stronger yen and weaker bond market may be less bad news than a response to good news.
But with the ten-year Treasury yield at a meager 2.95%, stock performance looks less bad than it would under normal conditions.
And right now the amazing improvements for most stocks compared with 2009 are masking the fact that things are just less bad.
The current system is probably less bad than the 1950s device of forcing British cinemas to show a quota of British films.
It obviously helped that the majority of the earnings companies that have reported so far have been better than expected, or conversely, less bad than feared.
What HSBC has been fined for is something which in the eyes of the bureaucracy is worse: and in the eyes of pretty much everyone else less bad.
This infers a bad outcome for owners of cash and debt, a less bad outcome for owners of stocks, and a reasonable outcome for owners of real assets like property and commodities.
The direct aim of this strategy would not be a less bad climate, but the more measurable goal of bringing energy to those in the developing world who are currently starved of it.
When the question before the Congress and the country is not whether to increase taxes but instead which taxes to increase, a gasoline tax will look, if not good, then less bad than the alternatives.
Thiel, who was in law school at the time, was also the president of the Stanford Federalist Society and the founder of the Stanford Review, a more highbrow, less bad-boy version of the notoriously incendiary Dartmouth Review.
Less bad is very different than good.
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All of this helps explain why the recession of 2008-9 felt less bad to many who lived through it than the recession of the early 1980s, even though there was a similar fall in national output in both cases.
The bullish consideration relates to expectations, which is what our modern earnings-season culture is all about as we often bid up the prices of shares of bad companies whose performance is a bit less bad than previously expected while we dump shares of great companies whose performance turns out a little less magnificent than expected.
This gave homeowners more to spend in the good times but less in bad ones.
The opportunity for benefit is less, simply because the bad event is less likely to happen.
The payoff for consumers is easier access to new auto loans today, since lenders are less worried about bad loans.
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The lesser charge of manslaughter requires a killing through "act, procurement or culpable negligence" which can be established with less evidence of bad motive.
The new owner will still be liable if the old one cannot pay, he says, but at least there is less scope for bad faith.
The data suggest that the poorer results of similar investors stem less from selecting bad companies, more from bad decisions taken together after the initial investment.
Conn's jumped 2.56, or 16%, to 19.05, after the regional consumer-electronics and appliances retailer reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit, as it benefited from higher average selling prices and set aside less to cover bad loans.
Lenders who cannot distinguish good borrowers from bad become less willing to lend to anyone.
It is Weeks' mission to make the bad times less terrible by changing the way Corning decides what to invest in.
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