Not that he smelled bad, but that his sense of smell was as acute as a canine's.
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True, the film has yet to accrue the kind of cult fanbase which has developed around Tommy Wiseau's so-bad-it's-amazing "The Room" -- a movie referenced in "MacGruber" -- but that may be because it's not that bad (for the record, this reporter supports any project in which Val Kilmer plays a character called "Dieter Von Cunth").
Those bankers may not be bad people but that reverse-Robin-Hood incentive system makes them do bad things.
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She abandons many loose ends untied, but that's not necessarily bad: it leaves one pondering on the difficult uncertainties she raises.
Research firm Strategic Insight forecasts the industry's boom-time annual growth rate of 25% is likely to slow to 10%, but that's not bad considering the market's troubles.
"We haven't been in a series before where we have to go into a final match needing to win to draw the series - but that might not be a bad thing for us right now, " said Ponting.
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While 80% of donors say they watch the show, donations on a whole rose just less than 1% since the show began, but that's not bad considering most charities struggled with massive donation drop-offs after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001--unless you were a Sept. 11-related charity.
The look on the Plaid AM's face suggested that lots of things might not happen but the very fact that they could is bad enough.
The days of pre-recession easy credit are gone, but that is not necessarily such a bad thing.
Consumers have obviously pulled back from spending last quarter, but that does not make LOW a bad stock pick right now.
But that may not be such a bad thing for Ferguson.
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But that might not be such a bad thing: ideally, Thailand will develop a political system robust enough to regulate itself, without intervention from the monarch.
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"But that's not necessarily a bad thing at all - what we're doing is reaching out to a much broader range of students and making it possible for them to see themselves at Oxford, " he added.
He concedes that there is a lot of bad mass entertainment, but that it is not part of an inexorable process of dumbing down.
So maybe there was plenty of evidence that these defendants decided to ship bad peanut butter ... but maybe not enough that this product actually caused injury to each person.
My concern is not that I think Google is a bad company, but I do have a concern that while GOOG does own search, search is in danger of becoming commoditized by value added vendors.
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On your motorcycle or in the car, summer on the road mean summer songs, and they're not always the highest quality musical offerings, but commentator Michelle Mercer wants to remind us that bad music is not a uniquely American phenomenon.
Well so far David it's not been that bad, but General Musharraf has told Colin Powell that the shorter the duration of the conflict in Afghanistan the better it would be for the country.
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"We thought deliveries would go up before the end of the year in order to be eligible for the tax break--but that's just not doing it, and that may be because profits are so bad that companies can't get an additional tax break, since there's nothing to write off against, " Wyss said, adding that the inability to attain financing is also a factor.
It's not that they look bad, but they aren't anything special.
Selamawit (not her real name), an independent consultant who works with women's affairs organisations in Addis Ababa, shares Mr Lemn's concerns about screening adoptive families but says that "adoption in principle is not a bad thing" although it is best for children to remain with their birth families or, failing that, the extended family.
But bad data are not the only thing that can ruin a drug's prospects.
It's not that bad (yet), but CFOs have plenty to gripe about.
Now 17 seconds is not bad, but you want to keep that in perspective when comparing to an iOS device like an iPhone or iPad.
But that 15% growth rate, while not bad in these uncertain economic times, is a considerable drop from a year ago, when revenues rose 23%.
"It gives you a sense of comfort that things are not bad, but we have to wait till June to get a proper picture, " said Madan Sabnavis, chief economist at Care Ratings.
That might not sound too bad but only two months ago the IMF was forecasting a rise of 1.7% and at the start of the year the UN had projected a 4.8% increase.
For a long time most economists thought that slavery was not just bad, but also inefficient.
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