But just minutes before she was going to dial, her mother called with some bad news.
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We have some good news and some bad news Optimus fanboys, which do you want first?
There has been some bad news on the revenue front in recent days.
While I sympathize with this viewpoint, I have some bad news: change is not slowing down any time soon.
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its February existing home-sales report today with some bad news today.
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Hewlett-Packard's newly thriving personal computer business is about to get some bad news.
Unfortunately, I believe there is still some bad news concerning the technology out-flow.
At a preseason dinner with season-ticket holders, Notre Dame coach Mike Brey delivered some bad news to his most loyal fans.
Last week, 38 laid off its entire staff with a curt email, and Governor Lincoln Chaffee delivered some bad news in a press conference.
Nevertheless, there are some who still think we are already in a recession, and there is bound to be some bad news in the next few weeks to support their case.
The harrowing, around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race is about halfway done and one boat celebrating a new lead over the fleet is getting some bad news: this might be your last race.
So, assuming no big change in their approach between now and November, we have to expect the director, Robert Chote, to be delivering some bad news to Mr Osborne in the coming weeks.
Stocks initially declined on Friday in response to the weaker-than-expected jobs report, uninspiring testimony from Mr. Bernanke (who may have been talking his QE2 book), and some bad news for the banks from Massachusetts.
My family got some bad news last week.
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As I have previously described in detail, these problems are going to come to a head in the next few weeks, because the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is likely to have some bad news for him.
We're afraid we've got some bad news.
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As third quarter earnings season began my theme was that the earnings bar was set quite low, which meant that even some bad news was factored into market weakness as the Dow Industrial Average traded as low as 10, 404.49.
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Now, some good news and bad news about flying in the U.S - the bad news first.
Some unexpectedly bad news from Japan might just be the event that brings investors back to reality and so causes a crash.
Mr Obama also used the opportunity to dump some more bad news.
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Imagine, too, some pretty bad news for Groupon, which faces a whole new kind of competition from the recently-launched Google Offers discount system.
' There's some good news and bad news.
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Although there was some additional bad news thrown at traders Tuesday (Bahrain declaring a State of Emergency and announcing that the military was taking over for the next three months leaps to mind), the attention was clearly focused on Japan.
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That means the raw commodity sector could start to rebound even though some more bad economic news may be coming in the near term.
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Berger notes that the SOX has sold off about 7% in recent weeks, while the rest of the market moves to new highs, suggesting that some of the bad news is already in the semi stocks.
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Next, retail in general is so far showing some resilience to bad economic news.
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