"There's been a bump in the road here, but it will be good to get back to the talks there will be good days and bad days, as there always are in these sorts of negotiations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

You don't wanna have it depreciate all the time, and that goes back to the bad old days of inflation.

想必没人愿意看它一直贬值下去吧，搞不好又回到了通货膨胀的灰色岁月。

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The scene prompted some commentators to recall the bad old days when the AU's predecessor, the Organization of African Unity, was known as the Club of Dictators.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

But it has been hit by bad weather in recent days.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Jumblatt,however, blasted Hezbollah for using the release for political capital and questioned whether more political assassinations were in the cards now that the men were free: He says that the release of the generals was a sad spectacle, because they were symbols of the former Syrian tutelage over Lebanon, reminding us of the bad,old days.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30