He generally devoted only about a week and a half to writing a novel, a practice that, again, was good for his bank account and bad for his reputation.
Equity markets had recently rallied even in the face of bad economic news on account of growing hopes that the Fed would step in with further measures to deal with slowing growth, but there was no masking the disappointment at the release of August employment data, which showed a net-nil job creation last month.
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Its businesses are internationalising faster, and its persistent current-account deficit and bad infrastructure mean it badly needs foreign investment.
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Similar developments are under way in petrol retailing in America, where the electronics recognise the car and debit its owner's bank or credit card account (too bad if the car is stolen).
Now, you might be thinking that those two security questions protect you, because after all, how will the bad guys trying to access your account get these?
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Mr O'Neill is right to think that big current-account deficits are not necessarily bad, but his argument is flawed in three ways.
Agreed, a current-account deficit is not necessarily bad: an economy may be borrowing from abroad to finance investment that will lift future growth.
The enhancement in margin came on account of cost control, reduced bad debt and other factors.
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To get "the treatment" (which can be good or bad depending on the size of your expense account), head to Madison and 72nd Street, gateway to the bejewelled storefronts of the Upper East Side.
Of course, that could be a bad thing too, as far as my bank account is concerned.
"If you liken it to a household account, that's not a bad mortgage to house value ratio, " Mr Kershaw added.
And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
The report does have one other piece of bad news for the UK: it thinks our current account deficit is going to get even bigger.
Ultimately, if yoga is to be conceptualized as a single entity, we have to take into account all parts of it, good, bad, and ugly, according to Traci Childress, who works with Omega Institute on their annual Being Yoga conference.
And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account -- to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day -- because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
Not bad, in other words, especially since this is only taking into account Pandora payments, not those from Rhapsody, Spotify, or any other online streaming service.
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What if you examined Citi through a darker lens, taking into account what it would need to weather a storm of loans gone bad?
Authorities gave a different account, saying the pilot mistook the road for a runway due to bad weather.
Gross domestic product, foreign exchange reserves, current account surpluses - big numbers are thrown around daily as Asia tries to measure how bad the Crisis is and whether it is bottoming out.
In fact when I try to account for all the pain and suffering in our country I usually see good people making bad decisions rather than helpless people ground down by the impersonal forces of politics and economics.
The Bank of China, the least bad of the country's four big banks, expects that in five years' time consumers will account for half of the bank's loans.
Detroit is a city of contrasts, but no one has captured the good and bad as vividly as an unidentified hobbyist armed with a cheap helicopter-like flying robot and a YouTube account.
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With such losses to account for, the banks will be less willing than ever to undertake write-offs of their bad debts.
This was true even after the researchers took into account how aggressive the children were at the beginning of the study -- a strong predictor of future bad behavior.
If investors twig that European companies aren't such bad investments after all, he says, it will not be so easy for America to finance its current-account deficit with European savings and that points only one way for the dollar.
Ms Harris said that a family history of breast cancer was more likely to be a case of "bad luck" than a faulty gene, as hereditary breast cancer caused by genetic mutations such as BRCA1 or BRCA2 account for only 5-10% of cases of the disease.
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