Never mind whether Obama, in particular, sighs or loses sleeps or tosses a coin when he chooses a target: What would it mean for a bad, or craven, or simply carelessly accommodating President to do so?
Bad for business means bad for government — a situation that cranks up the pressure for a policy rethink.
Often, that means reaching for bad-for-you foods.
We now know enough about the demon tablet and what it means for the future of demons to hypothesize that the angel tablet might mean similarly bad news for the angels.
Since the pay of these plutocrats is highly variable, a bad year for them means a bad year for the taxman.Even though bank bonuses are on the rebound this year, the industry is smaller than it was.
But you could also argue that most of this is bad -- and when I say bad, I mean bad for me more than anyone or anything else.
And 'tepid' is perhaps the best word to describe an encounter which could have been a lot better but was by no means all bad for Real Sociedad.
As well as means for being bad at their jobs, the CIA offers instructions to "Act stupid" and "Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble".
Agent Cody Banks provides more fun than Hunted and Willard combined, and it's meant for teenagers, usually a bad sign.
More tornadoes means more chances for bad luck.
