That, generally speaking, is bad news for other obesity drug companies like Orexigen, which faces an FDA panel in December, and Arena Pharmaceuticals, whose lorcaserin was rejected last week.

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Alexis -- speaking of a bad headline -- sorry.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

What makes this extra strange is that Drudge is not even one of the bad guys, relatively speaking.

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It's terminally bad for us, but politically speaking, I guess people will be taking another look at the Republican majority.

NPR: DeLay Maintains Innocence, Calls Charge a 'Sham'

He said, there are bad options and worse options, speaking about Iraq, and then went on to say there's no reason we shouldn't be out by next summer.

NPR: Reporter Roundtable: Obama and Iraq Coverage

Speaking of our auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and a global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink.

CNN: Obama speech to Congress focuses on economy

Frankly speaking, I didn't do anything really, really bad.

CNN: Interview with Jack Neo

The four-year-old league needed "rudos", or bad guys, and organisers wanted American-born, English-speaking wrestlers who could appeal to the broader US audience.

BBC: Lucha libre in the US: The wrestler who taunts Latino fans

People who fear failure in speaking are defensive, and that defensiveness shows up in a variety of ways, all bad.

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Founded by public speaking trainer Matthias Poehm, this is a real honest-to-god political party devoted to the extinction of bad presentations.

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