Scholar John Strohm suggests that they did so by creating personas of a type conventionally seen as masculine: "They adopted a tough, unladylike pose that borrowed more from the macho swagger of sixties garage bands than from the calculated bad-girl image of bands like The Runaways".
What if the network deliberately chooses questions calculated to make the Republicans look bad, or, at least, calculated to make the Republicans look worse than the questions posed to the Democrats were calculated to make the Democrats look?
Thus began 30 years of calculated effrontery, bad taste, subversive humour and challenges to propriety.
Though impossible to calculate accurately, bad debts might amount to the equivalent of a quarter of the country's GDP.The fat pipes of the financial systemA similar credit boom preceded America's crisis in 2008, and Japan's in the early 1990s.
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Change in brachial artery diameter (ΔBAD) and FMD %, our primary outcome, were calculated as: Δ BAD = H - R ; FMD % = H - R / R × 100.
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But basically this is a firework display of bad taste, calculated to be as silly as possible.
In describing how one executive's bonus was calculated, it said: "Too bad shareholders' returns can't be similarly adjusted to exclude the restructuring charges their companies take".
