If there is a criticism, it's that the expert twist (of the rare kind, one that provokes a disbelieving reread) draws the story to an end rather quickly, yet Hiaasen takes a further 100 pages to tie up all the loose ends: a slightly underpowered denouement, given how engaging Bad Monkey has been until to that point.
The story begins with Fritz and Marie; from Fritz's restless but engaging bad behavior (he pushes Marie off her chair in the very first scene, long before he breaks her Nutcracker doll), and from the ways his parents and Drosselmeier deal with him, we learn lessons about human impulse and the value of good manners that open up the whole ballet's inner world.
Misleading client companies may engage bad auditors to revise their financial statements, so that poor earnings quality may not be caused by low audit quality; but rather bad client companies for our purposes, earnings managers with poor earnings quality may choose to hire bad auditors.
"It's not just that Oldman makes excuses for bad behavior in Hollywood; it's that he's been accused of engaging in bad behavior himself and called others hypocritical for being offended," he wrote.
"There are some folks who made bad loans or engaged in bad transactions and took big risks and they should suffer the consequences of those risks not panning out.
He asked the court to enjoin and restrain Countrywide "from engaging in bad faith and abusive practices" like those that occurred with the Atchleys.
We learn, bizarrely, that she spends much time driving around Newark (the bulk of one pie), freaking out about bee stings and blood clots, or engaging in "bad habits," whatever they are.
But if we get something along these lines, coupled with an insurance exchange, it should make it much harder for insurance companies to compete by engaging in bad behavior, while creating an incentive for them to compete along the lines we want them to compete on: better customer service, better access to providers, and so on.
"It's something that in fact opens a kind of floodgate because there are lots of people who are engaging in bad acts that are really driven by compulsive behaviors that they, in an ordinary sense, don't have control over".
Still, "The Bling Ring" didn't get off to as strong of a start as "Spring Breakers," another A24 release that also features young adults engaging in bad behavior.
While Gunderson may not actively defend his member schools when they are caught engaging in bad behavior, nor has he criticized them.
