In early June, with the bill still alive but badly battered, the Republican candidates gathered in New Hampshire for another debate.

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I'd never been so badly battered by ice in my life.

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The 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average, badly battered though they may be, are priced at 19 times earnings, uncomfortably above their long-term average of 15.

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Indiana has been badly battered by the current recession.

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"The commercial is an utterly offensive, childishly obvious attempt to resuscitate a badly battered reputation for purely commercial purposes with what I'm sure somebody imagines to be one 'bold stroke, '" says Martin Puris, a longtime ad agency executive who is now CEO of Engine USA, an integrated communications company in New York.

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