The petitions often are written in bad English, and some are in Chinese.

NPR: Chinese Air Their Cases By Petitioning White House

Sheilagh Ogilvie, professor of economic history at Cambridge, has written that the guilds were, in general, bad things.

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Tom Waits : Tom Waits has scarcely written (or at least released) a bad song in a career spanning more than 30 years.

NPR: The Best Living Songwriters

If they don't want a bad story in the newspaper, it doesn't get written.

CNN: Transcript: Obama's State of the Union speech

While much has been written about how graduate school generally, and law school specifically, are bad choices in this economy some applicants may nevertheless have decided that now is the time to enroll.

FORBES: Misleading Study of 'Big Law' Partners Criticized

Two particular examples, Keith Jarrett and The Bad Plus' Ethan Iverson (both Bley disciples), have written music in its image serene, unsettling, and gorgeously melancholy.

NPR: Paul Bley Trio: Darkly Winsome Jazz

The bad loans that Argentina inherited from the debt crisis of the 1980s were written down in 1992.

ECONOMIST: Argentina's debt restructuring

Others will struggle: prepare to cringe in 2011 as corporate leaders spout a lot of phoney stuff that used to look bad enough when written down, but will sound even worse spoken.

ECONOMIST: Companies adapt to the video age