It's not often that anything wipes the cheery grin off his face but he was downcast on learning the bad news that his finger was broken. |
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The bad news is that many companies do not have the depth of management to achieve this. |
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The most frequent complaint I hear is that journalists present only the bad news. |
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The bad news for air passengers is that things are likely to get even worse. |
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I spent a lot of time getting ready for Halina the second time, but she had bad news when I arrived. |
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The bad news is that those of you still using version 4 or older browsers will not be able to see any of this. |
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Now the counting is over and, as so often in life, we have good news and bad news. |
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He then received a second call from her in the evening bearing the bad news. |
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This is bad news for poor organisations hoping to run it on ancient hardware. |
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If you want to avoid this process, then there's some good news and some bad news. |
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She didn't know whether the news was good news or bad news, and so she didn't react at all to it. |
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The bad news is that anyone who adores linear thinking will be in for a rough ride this month. |
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I know you are all busy with your families, up to your ears in daily problem solving, and that the last thing you need is bad news. |
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They could be critical and convey bad news, knowing that their jobs would remain secure. |
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The bad news is that these stands are self-assembly with several hundred tiny screws and washers. |
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The bad news is there won't be a performance but there will be an exclusive meet-and-greet that night at a secret location. |
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The bad news is there won't be a performance but there will be an exclusive meet-and-greet at a secret location. |
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The bad news is as each day ticks on the funding allocation of over 1 billion per year gets taxpayers less and less road for their money. |
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As much as it pains me to be fair to Kissinger, he isn't the only public figure whose travel plans mysteriously synchronize with bad news. |
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He can't come across as the bad news bear, lest people decide they don't want to listen to doomsday prophesies for the next four years. |
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When people don't believe bad news, or don't want to believe it can affect them, the tendency is to shoot the messenger. |
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Calling them names for doing so is like shooting the messenger who brings bad news. |
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It was much like a potentate of yore shooting the messenger carrying bad news. |
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The more immediate bad news is that tropical storm Jeanne is next in line coming across the mid-Atlantic Ocean. |
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But unfortunately there is the bad news as well, the tragedies, accidents and the deaths. |
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What's more, bad news about trans-fatty acids hit the margarine and spreads industry hard. |
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The bad news is that the vocation's reputation did not rise out of the trough it has been mired in for two decades. |
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If a quick health check at the bar uncovers some bad news, the pub will do a roaring trade in stiff shorts. |
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A clever carpenter can address variations in worktop depth and even surface heights, but even slender vertical gaps between units are bad news. |
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But there's bad news too, as local supporters have to start again down in the fourth division. |
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The bad news is that we're going to have to dig extremely deep to buy more space. |
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She is small and mousey and I can't help but think of all the bad news she must have to give people each day. |
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When you share bad news and try to reassure people, they're likely not to believe you unless they feel you have skin in the game. |
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There is bad news for millions of homebuyers and savers as with-profits insurance companies make their bonus declarations over the coming weeks. |
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The bad news is that I'm vain, snobbish, a bit of a gossip and am rather divorced from most of the real world. |
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From what looked like very bad news came the unutterable relief of very good news. |
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But later that evening the police came and broke the bad news to him, he said. |
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He should have told shareholders the bad news, but he didn't breathe a word to anybody. |
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The bad news is that French antipathy towards him is so obvious that it sours the whole occasion. |
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Although it is at odds with our predominant medical ethical culture, many families and patients desire nondisclosure of bad news. |
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To argue that this is bad news because it is slightly higher than analysts expected is surely to enter the realm of statistical hair-splitting. |
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There is bad news today for any bald, guitar-playing Afghani who likes a hand of Bridge. |
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And there may be some bad news in the announcement that the first release will include a booklet and a Bullwinkle hand puppet. |
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It's not all bad news for the former Chorlton convent girl, whose hard-nosed approach to her job earned a lot of admirers. |
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The bad news is, there are a couple places where the fire can cross more easily eastward into the populated areas. |
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When the bad news is in the headlines, you will need confidence in your portfolio selections. |
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Our team had a storm cloud over us today, following some surprisingly bad news relayed by the night float. |
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The only people who want to hear bad news are the people who are heartened by failure. |
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We had military censors, not to suppress bad news but to keep damaging news from the enemy. |
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There is also bad news on the way for young drivers, with a major overhaul planned for the provisional licence system. |
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But they always sugar-coat the bad news by saying that the revenue is ahead of last year. |
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The bad news is that the consumer PC market is rapidly approaching maturity, with renewals overtaking first-time purchases. |
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It is particularly bad news for the Green Party, who are usually well supported by the student body. |
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If it doesn't give you pause for thought, even in a world besieged by bad news, you aren't paying attention. |
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The bad news is that the current government is constrained by the circumstances it inherited from the previous administration, he continued. |
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The bad news is that they seem to be swimming in data generated by virtually everyone with a telephone, a computer or a fax machine. |
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There's a disposition to believe any bad news, whatever the source, and an indisposition to believe the good news, no matter how reliable. |
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Among the many reasons for writing letters are communicating good news and, alas, bad news. |
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Once again, the town's manufacturing industry bore the brunt of the bad news. |
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The bad news this year is that the pink champagne of choice is harder to find than usual. |
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The bad news is that this will not occur until the Democrats control the Senate and the Republicans are the ones filibustering. |
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There's bad news for the bookies heading into tonight's radically changed interdominion heats. |
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Why rock the boat with bad news stories about interpersonal relationships when you have an annual plan to sell to voters? |
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He was an easy going pleasant man to deal with and he had a nice way of giving good or bad news. |
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This spells bad news not only for Arctic peoples but for species like the polar bear, which hunts seals on the sea ice. |
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Accurate or not, the flood of bad news appears to be reaching some kind of crescendo. |
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The midwife visited this morning and the good news is that the head is engaged but the bad news is that the baby is posterior. |
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The bad news is that the admission to the United sector is a hefty 12,000 forints. |
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This is bad news for a company which depends so highly on retail sales which should rise to a crescendo in the run-up to Christmas. |
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This is bad news for the magazine, which, despite its lock on the market and air of wealth and ease, is hardly a cash cow. |
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The bad news for the rest of the Premiership is that the daddy of destroyers is destined to get meaner by the day. |
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The first month of driving alone, on a P-plate, is extraordinarily dangerous, and the first six months are pretty bad news. |
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To prevent profiteering on bad news, the wagers would have been kept small. |
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Possible expansion was, however, tempered with some bad news with the issuing of a profit warning for Waterford Wedgwood. |
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All buses are equipped with radios to ensure the immediate propagation of bad news. |
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It depresses me to think of people trying to sell papers by dredging up bad things or bad news. |
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He came onto the public address system and said he had some good news and some bad news. |
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Things start going wrong, bad news overshadows the good, the odds seem stacked against us. |
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I then had to wait for the results and I didn't know if it was going to be good or bad news. |
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This is very bad news for the one person in ten who suffers from nickel allergy, or those with eczema or dermatitis. |
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An interest in bad news demands a certain high level of national seriousness and gravity and, possibly, hopelessness. |
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The bad news is that the prospects are dim for achieving this end without the resort to force over the coming years. |
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Race is a very divisive issue and if they managed to get a seat it would be very bad news for everyone in the area. |
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The bad news is that every single byte of data on the hard drive has been completely and irretrievably lost. |
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The bad news for the British fashion industry was that Stella McCartney would not be showing her debut eponymous collection in London. |
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The collapse of the dot-bomb meant bad news for both, and in fact the Dow Jones has yet to match its pre-bust high. |
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It is absolutely imperative in my view that every family that reads this message takes the bad news seriously and prepares for a long siege. |
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Good news travels fast, bad news travels faster, and embarrassing news travels at warp speed. |
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Instead Wednesday and Thursday saw moderate but acceptable gains, indicating that the bad news has been discounted. |
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However, there is bad news for wealthy families who use trusts to shelter assets from tax. |
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Christine took the bad news well enough but the rest of the Top 9 contestants were devastated to see their fellow singer sent home. |
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The bad news is that there will inevitably be job losses in the hundreds, if not thousands, among the ranks of common bank workers. |
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The bad news is that popular sentiment in this matter is rather nationalistic. |
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Well, seminar after seminar makes the point that bad news doesn't get better with age. |
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The bad news for air travelers is that in the long term, fares are bound to increase. |
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That's probably bad news for the industry, which has blamed its billion dollar losses partially on persistently low airfares. |
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But even if there is no bad news awaiting you at the hotel reception desk, that feeling lasts only hours, a day or two at the most. |
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More bad news this week as public school teachers across Bermuda began working to rule in protest at another last minute Ministry decision. |
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Further write-downs are expected as further bad news from recently floated companies take place. |
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Bad news is always hard but bad news on a beautiful sunny morning seems doubly burdensome. |
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There is always some bad news somewhere and therefore always a reason not to invest. |
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Either way it is bad news all round especially for the poor man under a train. |
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It was bad news, though, to hear that this production gave itself under two weeks to cast and rehearse the two plays. |
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The bad news is that this All Hallows' Eve is likely to have more than the usual share of actual fear. |
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The bad news was that a trekker from another party had been struck down with a combination of altitude sickness and pneumonia. |
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Channel 4 reporter and anchorman Krishnan Guru-Murthy had just finished his midday rapid-fire barrage of breaking bad news. |
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The bad news is that it will take time and effort and an investment to retrofit existing systems with services-oriented interfaces. |
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The bad news comes at a time when banks have lent more money than ever to consumers with poor credit. |
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The stock markets are not the only indicators of economic health, of course, but there was bad news aplenty elsewhere last week. |
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The same discussion is in order when the contractor delivers the bad news that the project will run on another six months. |
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What's bad news for the government and corporate America could end up being a boon for the oft-rejected lounge lizard. |
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The bad news is that we will need to be a little more careful to insure that the takedown screw remains tight when the rifle is in use. |
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Isn't there always bad news just when you think a project is going along nicely? |
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If this commercial proposition proves wrong, it could be bad news for more than Scardino. |
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In Japan, the banks are in a terrible mess so we can only expect more bad news from Tokyo. |
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The bad news is nobody knows who will be the Chancellor in two or three weeks, if we have one. |
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I told him to stay out of it and let someone else be the bearer of bad news. |
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But there is a world of time for bad news and we are only travelling together for a short time more. |
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But after I'd dragged myself out of bed this afternoon and nerved myself to replay what I somehow knew was bound to be bad news, I pressed the button and heard. |
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I cannot think of any politician today who would give bad news so baldly. |
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And that was the real bad news for Young Living, because a drug has to be studied and claims verified. |
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In other news, I don't have a valentine. And the only girls who seem to have any interest in me are either total jailbait or barely legal. The question is, is that bad news? |
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The bad news for his rivals, however, is that protest candidates have proved very effective at indelibly soiling whatever image the party is trying to convey at the moment. |
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And it's good to go while the getting is good, but Miss Wolff has bad news for her friends and fellow country fans, rockabilly retro-ists and would-be jivers. |
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From tests for cancer, diabetes, heart disease to HIV and leukemia, it is a regular occurrence that staff at the department will be the finders of extremely bad news. |
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He had just finished his midday rapid-fire barrage of breaking bad news. |
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The bad news is that he was with a woman who looked like a hooker. |
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We live in a negative world where we are constantly bombarded with bad news, hurtful gossip and sometimes people we hold in high regard trying to keep us down all the time. |
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Lady Antonia and myself are both agreed that this is bad news. |
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You should communicate bad news clearly, fairly, and humanely. |
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The bad news on nuggety scrumhalf Vido Nako is he suffered a serious knee injury against the Eagles and according to Van der Merwe, could be out for as long as 10 months. |
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All this bad news is darkening the mood of company executives. |
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However, it's not all bad news on the unification merry-go-round. |
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White and a pale sort of foamy green swirled together on the walls, and the doors were dark blue, ominous and foreboding pits that threatened to cave in before bad news. |
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There is no time to be wasted by shooting the messenger of bad news. |
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The bad news is that even though he complains he can no longer connect with contemporary pop music, that doesn't stop him from cluelessly pontificating about its demise. |
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We know that many people have an unfortunate tendency to kill the messenger who bears bad news, and sometimes it is necessary to take this tendency into account. |
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He uses it to dismiss hecklers and distract from bad news in the Garden State. |
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But there has been a nonstop deluge of bad news for ink on paper types that makes you wonder whether there is light at the end of the preverbal tunnel. |
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And we all know from experience that sorcerers with reps are bad news. |
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The bad news is I skipped the cool down and the imps of sloth have decided to punish my errant behaviour with a pinched nerve, that restricts the movement of my head. |
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The end game in Syria is particularly bad news for Iran and its Lebanese ally Hizbullah. |
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But the fact these rigs are in the firth at all is bad news. |
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In fact, the moa is a New Zealand species but kiwis are more closely related to emus and cassowaries in Australia, so it may be bad news for the national symbol. |
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We don't want round robins, we want the letters to be personal letters saying why the decision over Metrolink is bad news for you, for your business, your family or your job. |
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The bad news is that there isn't a simple fix for your problem. |
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If this is confirmed, it will be bad news for those who've been expecting that confirmation of past life on Mars would provide a burst of energy for the field of astrobiology. |
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He said the parents of girls who lived in her boarding house had been contacted at home and given the bad news before they returned to school earlier this week. |
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The bad news is that Romney is still underwater, meaning that more voters continue to see him unfavorably than favorably. |
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The bad news was short-lived, however, as FOX ordered a new script and new pilot the very next month based on the same concept. |
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The bad news for those who are predicting Livingston will collapse is that McNeill expects his players to go from strength to strength as the season progresses. |
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The bad news for him is that others have copped on to his game. |
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Even if this isn't heresy, it's bad news for women's claims for equality. |
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This is very bad news for the wildlife that depends on bog moss. |
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That was bad news for the middle-men, the people who owned NYSE seats and the guys in the funny jackets who worked on the floor. |
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How much more bad news are policyholders supposed to endure? |
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The bad news, he tells us, is that the rise of the machines will only worsen the wage polarization we are seeing today. |
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I was feeling like that kind of guy appearing in several different mythologies, that kind of guy having the unthankful task to bring over the really, really bad news. |
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A PR job is fraught with potential pitfalls and catastrophes that are predisposed to causing bad news, he cautions, and lists the sources of disasters. |
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That said anyone who has been investing for a little while knows that the market often overreacts to bad news and this can provide good opportunities. |
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but here at Royalist towers we think not. |
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Walmart cashes about 18 percent of food stamps in the U.S. Ergo, any cut would be bad news for the company. |
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Move on, move forward, hold your head high and please recognize that this begging boyfriend is majorly bad news. |
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The bad news is that, to many, the home office market is elusive and the home office worker is a mystery. |
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The bad news is that financial innovation can be a profit-seeking behavior by boundedly rational managers within the financial organizations. |
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This was bad news because of the ability of the grey to outcompete the red for food. |
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Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note. |
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One of the rules of journalism is that news from Africa is always bad news. |
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The bad news is that this study uses a specially produced flavanol rich chocolate, so normal dark chocolate won't give you the same effect. |
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And publicizing the so-called bad news alerts parents and community members that school officials are aware of problems and fixing them. |
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Because of the Dominican Republic's proximity to Haiti, where voodooism is practiced, owls are treated like witches or as very bad news. |
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All this is very bad news for coral, which has a fairly limited temperature comfort zone. |
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At his church, dealing with good and bad news has become a balancing act. |
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Did the authorities realize that they should not shoot the messenger who is only obliged to convey the good and bad news? |
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According to a new study about banking and word-of-mouth marketing, there is both good and bad news. |
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My longtime friend, since birth actually, called and gently broke the bad news to me. |
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That's bad news for supporters of Cape Columbine, and the other fillies Karen's Caper beat to the punch earlier in the month. |
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And so, the neverendum marches on. This is good news for the Liberals but bad news for Canada. |
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If Moody's injury was bad news for Johnson then Wilkinson's display got old beetle brow smiling. |
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The bad news is that cotton still faces a serious threat from the western tarnished plant bug, Lygus hesperus. |
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What bad news would that be? I'm wondering. That's just one more no-account Carter for me not to have to think on. |
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In July, bad news from the Somme campaign swept concern over Jutland from the British consciousness. |
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In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack. |
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This is bad news if you have a standard poodle or similar, which is shortly to be shown at Crufts. |
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And that could be bad news for O'Hara, as his record suggests he will have to rely on outboxing his rival. |
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The team reported the bad news in September in the International Journal of Biometeorology. |
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This is bad news, since cortisol also acts as an appetite stimulant. |
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Kier got its bad news into the public arena in July when it revealed the depth of the chill in the housing sector. |
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The bad news is I have a cracked bone in the scaphoid of my left wrist and the little finger on my left hand will be permanently bent. |
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An ambulance worker who found the mobile in the wreckage used the redial function to call the man's brother and break the bad news. |
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With all the bad news at the moment it makes a change to see a genuine heartwarming story. |
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I agree that it would be bad news if the grant were withdrawn totally but it is still a scare story. |
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The bad news is that nearly every color laser is too big to share a desk with comfortably. |
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The bad news is that a lot of dishonest dealers routinely cheat consumers, despite California lemon law and California auto fraud laws that are designed to protect consumers. |
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He's got some bad news in store for us, judging from his mood. |
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Though he had bad news, he ended with an upbeat forecast for the future. |
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The bad news is that instead we will get a smiley face if you are travelling within the speed limit or a frowny face if you are just one mph or more over the restriction. |
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The bad news is that phylogeny production is overwhelming the few avian taxonomists with the training and desire to produce modern classifications. |
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Furthermore, consistent with our hypothesis, we determine that good corporate governance alleviates spillovers of bad news from corporate scandals experienced by competitors. |
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All the good news and all of the bad news is wrapped up in a single word, rotation,'' Prudential Securities technical analyst Ralph Acampora said Monday. |
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Though its result was understandable, the recent District of Columbia election was bad news in that it represented a successful revolt of the tenured class. |
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Which is bad news for dweeby Cameron who wants to take her to the prom. |
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Many are warning Spears that he is bad news and is trying to use her. |
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