That is not bad, considering that the euro zone contracted by 0.2% in the same time period.
As if all that were not bad enough, another discouraging piece of news comes from America West, a mid-sized airline that the government rescued last year.
However, the parts of religion that are not bad are not relevant to the plot, arguably.
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So it was a mixed report that could be viewed as not that bad.
Any seasoned investor knows that not making bad investments is at least as important as making good ones.
And if that were not bad enough, Abe apparently feels under intense pressure to fulfill campaign pledges with quick results.
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That is not bad news for insurers in itself, but bad behaviour is making customers fatter and sicker as they age.
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If that were not bad enough, some now fret over the seemingly esoteric question of whether financial troubles, like buses, arrive in convoy.
As if that were not bad enough, the Senate heard this week of massive waste and fraud in the disbursal of disaster-relief funds.
As if that were not bad enough, the current approach to tackling the problem of onshore and offshore laundering havens is flawed, too.
And if that were not bad enough, the Himalayan valleys act as chimneys, pumping pollutants from the Indian plains to the mountain peaks.
That is not bad for a risk-free asset with a maturity of one to six years in theory, and often only a few months in practice.
If that were not bad enough, their families would be allowed to become legal residents, too, even if they are not currently in the United States.
As if that were not bad enough, we provide hundreds of billions of dollars a year in tax subsidies to encourage the purchase of employer-provided health insurance.
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As if that were not bad enough, Tsuyoshi Hondou, a physicist at Tohoku University in Japan, published a paper in 2002 that gave commuters yet another reason to feel uncomfortable.
And if that were not bad enough, they copied it incompetently, failing to charge the full price of power, or to set up an orderly regulatory structure, or to develop capital markets to fund new investment.
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It will be bad, although not that bad, in the first quarter of next year.
London 2012 is making us realise that, you know, we are not that bad.
True, the film has yet to accrue the kind of cult fanbase which has developed around Tommy Wiseau's so-bad-it's-amazing "The Room" -- a movie referenced in "MacGruber" -- but that may be because it's not that bad (for the record, this reporter supports any project in which Val Kilmer plays a character called "Dieter Von Cunth").
You add to that a literal industry, a cottage industry that's emerged to handle the prescription drugs--and let me say that it's not a bad idea that our nation decided that prescription drug coverage, which heretofore had not been a part of Medicare, that it become part of Medicare.
Last week, the hopes that the economy was not really that bad were supported by some of the economic data (such as auto sales) turning out better than expected.
The package that the Europeans put together three weeks ago is, I think, actually not that bad a package.
No one had even considered the matter, so alien was the concept that bad systems, not just bad doctors, might be responsible for patient injuries.
"Jamaica is now ranked number one in the medal table and that's not bad for a country with a population around the same size as that of the west Midlands, " said the BBC's Nick Davis in Kingston, Jamaica.
In the past week, John Brennan, your counterterrorism expert, has been under fire for remarks he made in an interview in which he likened the criminal release in the United States and the U.S. penal system to that of the detainees in the war on terror returned to the battlefield, saying 20 percent is not that bad.
Persuading voters that MPs are not so bad is a task that MPs themselves may be better placed to undertake.
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So instead of making the IRS bigger in response to a bad healthcare law, why not repeal that bad law and shrink the size of the IRS?
One holds that it is not such a bad thing that much of humanity is engaged in a feverish accumulation of property or that certain characters have accumulated an awful lot of it.
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