In sum, our flu season this year is simply a product of poor timing.

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Many are the victims of poor timing, having purchased their first home at the height of the housing bubble.

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That honor goes instead to its customers, whose poor timing has turned merely bad performance into spectacularly bad results.

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The cuts also suffer from poor timing.

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David Wyss, chief economist at Standard and Poor's, said the timing puts the figure under question.

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The poor performance is also blamed on bad timing, as the film was released just after schools re-opened.

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As for the mooted link to the financial crisis, the timing is dodgy: America's poor fell behind in the 1980s, the credit bubble took off two decades later.

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The new deal raised eyebrows when it was first announced, but the baffling timing now looks even more premature following three poor displays.

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Compensation of Lime executives falls in the middle of the pack, although the generally rising trend of compensation at Lime is not what we would expect given the poor stock performance, but it could be accounted for because of various timing issues.

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