Well, they're not just trying to say Lay and Skilling are innocent, because they didn't know bad things were going on.
As if things weren't bad enough for Silicon Valley tech companies, now some are being forced to buy their buildings high and sell low.
"If you can't address the bad news and get things back on course, it erodes your credibility as a leader, " says Wendy Alfus-Rothman, president of Wenroth Consulting Inc.
The picture was pretty ugly, but then it seemed things weren't so bad after all.
Dr. DEAN BAKER (Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research): I don't think that things are getting that bad.
"People will never really value companies properly because they can't get comfortable with things that sound bad, " says Miller.
Now Germany, too, is exhibiting some of the same signs of complacency, a belief that things aren't as bad as the doom-mongers predict.
Now, even bearing in mind that Ros couldn't have said anything bad about 4K without things getting awkward, it's still interesting that he admits to being skeptical of the resolution itself.
Sotheby's, its rival, is also hoping the sale goes well, for if it does it will mean that perhaps things aren't quite so bad as they seem.
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The goal is to convey to the subjects that when bad things happen, it doesn't mean they don't belong in general.
No doubt they had told their friends and family back home - as I have time and again - that generally things in Mexico aren't too bad, that the risks sound worse than they are.
One level is the short term--what should we be doing immediately so that some of the really bad things we have seen won't be as easy to pull off or as likely to occur, such as the Madoff case.
"I think they have an opportunity to say to the people of this state, look, we can't stop people from doing bad and venal and stupid things, disgusting things, but when confronted with the knowledge, we can act firmly and effectively, " he said.
After all, there are enough bad things in the world and worrying doesn't help.
Never much of a scorer, Brewer had played well during the Knicks' strong start, but never recovered once things started to go bad and Grunwald didn't really know why.
You might wonder, for the umpteenth time, why - if things are so bad - the IMF doesn't say temporary tax cuts or public investment would be helpful right now?
Too bad they didn't incorporate a standard driver set for these things, so when you plug in your device, you must already have a connection established in order to get the proper drivers.
The prime minister shows no sign yet of wanting to force him out - believing that however bad things may now look, Mr Hunt didn't actually do anything wrong or anything which helped the Murdochs and their bid.
Business executives should understand that bad (read expensive) things happen when customers don't control the purse strings.
Congress is notoriously bad at paying for things (in case you haven't noticed), especially when it comes to raising taxes.
Themed "Life Comes at You Fast, " it featured celebrities such as Kevin Federline and Fabio showing the bad things that can happen to people when they aren't prepared.
Suffice it to say, if things were looking bad at the end of 2007, they aren't looking a whole lot better now.
I'd feel very bad if we didn't have the success level that would let us do all those things.
Mr. SARJERI: I don't know, but I'm feeling like I'm living there - there are bad things and I'm like maybe not a grown up, I'm still a kid.
Chairman Sheila Bair told Congress in March that accounting rules don't permit banks to build reserves in a benign economic environment, forcing them to increase them when things turn bad.
Of course things are not yet as bad as Zittrain seems to claim, and though I don't often agree with noted free market advocate and libertarian Adam Thierer, his critical review on the Progress and Freedom Foundation blog is well-argued and often insightful.
She is confident we haven't hit another Depression and that we've learned enough lessons from the past to avoid letting things get as bad as they were before.
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