"Every golf-equipment company is just one bad decision away from losing substantial market share, " Alexander said.

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Nilan followed with stories of one bad decision after another in retirement once the fame of his playing career dried up.

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And BP ignored repeated warnings and made one bad decision after another until it was an environmental disaster and then they continued to make more poor decisions.

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In this economy, no one can afford to make a bad hiring decision, so many companies find themselves stymied by traditional hiring criteria.

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Even if we get through the next week without panic, my gut feeling is that this decision is a bad one and the Europeans should have chosen from the other two options on the table.

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But instead of acknowledging that all the data is positive, and Avastin still squarely meets the standards for Accelerated Approval, and waiting for the longer, larger OS trial it now says it wants, FDA did what it always does, simply forcing its decision (a bad one) by imposing its power to do so on the sponsor and patients.

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One assumes the decision-makers were ready to lose Muslim customers (bad news for store managers in Detroit) in exchange for Christian goodwill.

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Transformers Director Michael Bay then became one of the Bad Boys by dropping a Pearl Harbor-sized bomb on Paramount regarding its decision in a blog post since deleted and retracted, leading to speculation it was really the Decepticon version of Michael Bay that made the original posting.

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What was different between the decision-making process used for a good investment or purchase and the one used for a bad investment or purchase?

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