The rash of departures is certainly being treated as bad news by many permanent Eurocrats in Brussels, who worry that this is a bad moment for the commission to drift along without strong leadership.

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Touching or treating anyone in a way you would not want to be treated or touched: Bad.

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Many feel lessons had to be learnt from Vietnam, where some think the veterans were treated with contempt because they had the bad luck to fight in a war judged a mistake and a failure.

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Nor would extreme weight loss necessarily mean a bad prognosis if Jobs is being treated, Brawley says.

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But her computer model predicts that some slow-growing tumors could be treated just as well with less-frequent radiation, sparing patients bad side effects.

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He had asked her once, during a bad stretch six months ago, when he was being treated regularly with formidable steroids, if he was going to die.

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This trend might not be bad, but it is likely to result in big changes in the way sick people get treated.

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