A year ago, the Financial Services Authority had issued a statement of less than 300 words to reveal that it had shut its investigation into what went wrong the bank after concluding "bad" decisions rather than "dishonesty" resulted in its taxpayer bailout.
The film is so blandly opaque that it is possible to conclude that bad manners were in fact at the root of her depravity: Heidi Fleiss was not a casualty of Dr. Spock but of Gelett Burgess, who in 1900 published his own child-rearing guide, "The Goops and How to Be Them".
You could conclude that bad times are no time to change the constitution.
But if in fact the market had gone down, those same experts would claim brilliant predictive powers, and conclude that bad employment news "caused" the market loss.
Maybe it allows us to put troubling events or questions to rest in our minds, to conclude that, bad as it may be, the universe is at least understandable.
We conclude that Bad does not contribute to spontaneous or TNF-mediated cell death in thymocytes, neither under steady state conditions, in line with the initial reports by Ranger et al., nor upon inhibition of the IKK complex (this study).
That, he concluded, was bad form.
The review concluded, "Not bad for a ballet company that many regarded as half dead up until now".
A few weeks ago, I concluded my "Bad Religion" book club with Slate's Will Saletan by questioning the metaphysical underpinnings of contemporary secular liberalism, and I wanted to say something about the responses I provoked.
The FSA insisted the review concluded that "bad decisions were not the result of a lack of integrity by any individual and we did not identify any instances of fraud or dishonest activity by RBS senior individuals or a failure of governance on the part of the board".
