As I see it, Fear has gotten a bum rap and a bad rep.

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Before we get to Keynes, it must plainly be said that economics gets a bum rap.

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Then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan went as far as to say that Rios Montt was being given a "bum rap" by critics.

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Accordingly, they apparently have decided to demonize products without passing any regulations pushing valuable chemicals off the market by giving their targets a bum rap.

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If those behind a given film feel that it was given a bum rap during its theatrical release, they should be inclined to say so.

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It's a bum rap that has been fed by media hysteria.

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Deloitte, I think, is getting a bum rap in this lawsuit.

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But blue-ribbon panels sometimes get a bum rap.

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Why the bum rap for America's savings rate?

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This is one time when the folks in Washington may be getting a bum rap as states and localities try to dodge responsibility for a problem they helped create and from which they have benefited.

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Joe Pesci plays Vinny Gambini, a neophyte Brooklyn lawyer who high-tails it down to Wahzoo City, Alabama, to help his college-boy cousin (Ralph Macchio) and a friend (Mitchell Whitfield) beat a bum murder rap.

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