It's not that they look bad, but they aren't anything special.
They look bad for niacin, as the combo caused diabetes and other side effects even in patients who were selected because they could initially take niacin without serious side effects.
They know, too, that they can look bad when they fight the Democrats over necessary workplace reforms.
And like all incumbents stunned at the swift alienation of voters' affections, they look pretty bad.
In reality, what they are trying to do is to make Republicans look so bad that they will cave in.
They race around telling a story about their departure that makes them look bad, and then they start frantically answering online job ads.
But things may not be quite as bad as they look, not least because there is enormous scope for China to use energy more efficiently.
Granted, these are all extremely minor, but things like this just look bad, and they reflect poorly on a product that could be absolutely rock solid from a technical perspective.
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America's problems may not look as bad abroad as they do at home.
The bad news is that both candidates look as if they mean to tame the deficit using mostly tax rises instead of spending cuts.
If pension schemes look bad, health-care liabilities are far worse, for they are not funded at all.
"Being the newest platform on the block, they can look at what everybody's doing, what's good and bad, " said Michaluk.
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"When it gets real bad, and they never -- with this one -- look you in the eye, 'Well, I can't vote for him, ' " McEntee told the diverse union audience.
Mr Blanchard stood by that advice in his BBC interview: "If things look bad at the start of the year... and they do....there should be a reassessment of fiscal policy in the Budget".
Funnily enough they were one of the pre-season faves which I didn't really see but having said that, you go down there and take a look at their team then their team isn't bad - they certainly shouldn't go down.
Look at the hundreds of millions they lost when those bridge loans to LBOs went bad in 1989 and 1990.
Moreover, the bad loans sluiced overboard in past bail-outs look as if they are being replaced by a new wave.
Unfortunately, most billion-dollar startup ideas also look bad on first glance and for the first few years, before they turn into billion-dollar companies.
He criticized witnesses for pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit and accused prosecutors of trying to criminalize business decisions that only look bad in retrospect.
"Having agreed to it and backed out in effect at the last minute because they wanted to ask him specific questions about the night of the crime makes him look pretty bad, " Goldman said.
The bad news is that they completely disagree on what a more "growth-focused" approach would look like.
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