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  • First, Momma was in the day program at rehab and staying with my bad-news Aunt Clarine again at night.

    Joseph’s Grace Shelia P. Moses 2011

  • As the long-term treatment for permanent kidney failure, dialysis is a good-news/bad-news technology.

    ...With Functioning Kidneys for All 2009

  • Part Deux of "American Idol" 2011: Final Judgment starts Thursday with a reprisal of judge Jennifer Lopez's bad-news breakdown of Wednesday night, when she had to send home Chris Medina, the nice guy with the wheelchair-bound car-accident victim fiancée.

    'American Idol' 2011: Top 24 survive the Trail of Tears 2011

  • First, Momma was in the day program at rehab and staying with my bad-news Aunt Clarine again at night.

    Joseph’s Grace Shelia P. Moses 2011

  • Now it's two hours later, the audience is streaming from the theater and the bad-news tweets are already getting out there.

    Is the Movie Star Extinct? Peter Bart 2011

  • But in 2003 all I could find was a dizzying array of medical journal articles and bad-news headlines -- almost all of them incomprehensible for a new patient like me.

    Riva Greenberg: Amy Tenderich: A Mighty Force Empowering Diabetes Patients Riva Greenberg 2011

  • You remember Bassy, the grossly overrated, bad-news point guard who, among other stunts, brought his loaded gun onto the Blazers 'team jet, then suddenly realized it was his girlfriend's gun and he should have left it home with her and their newborn infant.

    He'll fit right in (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • You remember Bassy, the grossly overrated, bad-news point guard who, among other stunts, brought his loaded gun onto the Blazers 'team jet, then suddenly realized it was his girlfriend's gun and he should have left it home with her and their newborn infant.

    Jack Bog's Blog: July 2009 Archives 2009

  • If they want more than the case is worth, you often have to wait until the end to really drop the bad-news hammer onthem.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Your Lawyer’s Wrong: 2010

  • Indeed, the bad-news scenario for Treasurys would appear to be an unexpected jump in economic growth.

    For Treasury Bulls, It's All Good Matt Phillips 2011

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