The prospect of acquired perfection lies behind many big ideas and most bad ones.
The truth is, most bad headaches -- the ones that make getting through the day a chore or make you feel nauseated or sensitive to light -- are the Big M.
While California boasts the busiest deficient bridges in the nation, Pennsylvania wins the award for the most bad bridges with six metropolitan areas ranking among the highest percentages of deficient bridges of any U.S. state.
Thankfully, most bad things do, too.
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This is most acutely bad news for Fosters Group, whose wine unit continues to limp along.
Or, to put it another way, what really killed the dinosaurs was a string of the most atrocious bad luck.
The grounding may be most obviously bad news for Boeing, but the damage will be spread far beyond the Seattle aerospace giant.
Warren Buffett has long been resistant to gold fever, frequently dismissing the yellow metal as an investment because it produces no income, most recently bad-mouthing the asset in his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter.
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Second, much as it soothes the ego to think that your portfolio setbacks are because of a conspiracy, where large institutional clients make a killing and the individual investors get the crumbs from the table, it is institutional clients who lose the most in bad deals because they have more to lose.
It seems like all bad lifestyle choices lead to inflammation, and most inflammation leads to bad health outcomes.
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By deploying anti-spam measures at the server level most of the bad emails have been captured.
And most of the bad news has so far come from the volatile technology sector.
Obama has been unable to implement most of his bad policy proposals because he has met with such conservative resistance.
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At current levels, we believe the utility warrants a trading buy, as most of the bad news has already been discounted.
Defenders of Mr. Lew say that by the time he showed up at CAI most of the bad decisions had already been made.
If the reforms amount to nothing more than shuffling corporate assets, they will not have much effect (especially if the already stretched banks are forced to absorb most of the bad debt).
Since the government has relieved Banespa of most of its bad debts, its new owner should also have plenty of room to expand its lending (this time, perhaps, to people who will actually pay the money back).
When we see our goals in terms of what we can gain, rather than what we might lose, we are more likely to see a doomed endeavor for what it is, and try to make the most of a bad situation.
Facebook sent out notice about the changes near midnight East Coast time the night before Thanksgiving the kind of timing most companies would use to drop bad news, knowing most people are too busy traveling, salivating, or silently suffering through awkward family time to pay attention.
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Perhaps the most odious example of bad OECD policy is the campaign against tax competition.
Her most recent book is Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters .
When times turn bad, most corporate investors disappear, and the waves they create crash violently on the shore.
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As Paul Graham observes, most entrepreneurial ideas are bad and deservedly fail.
However, losing may not be that bad for most of you if you develop a greater appreciation of what you already have.
Mr Greenspan's less than optimistic prognosis for the economy was also backed up by a slew of company results , most of which were bad.
In the 1980s, most African countries had bad economic policies.
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