But it wasn't all bad either, no matter what the academic studies say.

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In theory, it wasn't a bad plan: a no-bailout rule and a ban on the ECB financing governments were supposed to force countries to manage their economies prudently.

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The toffs at the corporation figured that an old boy couldn't be all that bad, even if he played music no one else on the station knew.

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No bad for a place that sells pop-art inspired t-shirts.

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Now, so far, and no one's quite clear why, it hasn't been as bad as we thought it would be.

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Cyrus is getting older, but she's not in and out of court ( no offense, Lindsay), or getting into car wreck after car wreck ( no offense, Amanda), so isn't the "good girl gone bad" label pushing it?

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"Good genes" are no help if they are silenced, and "bad genes" don't pose much threat if they are not expressed.

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You also advocate the privatisation of Social Security, while paying little or no attention to what happens to people whose investments, through bad choices or bad luck, don't prosper.

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