21.   Breaststroke specialist Jeremy Linn of the University of Tennessee came closest to triggering a rendition of the national anthem, but he was the victim of bad timing.

22.   A. My suggestion is to consider the problem as a matter of bad timing rather than bad strategy.

23.   Brown in San Francisco, said BankAmerica was a victim of bad timing.

24.   But he, too, was a victim of bad timing and less-than-perfect execution.

25.   But if lowering interest rates now would be bad timing, raising them seems wrong-headed.

26.   But it is still bad timing.

27.   But Rivera is the one who had bad timing this time.

28.   But this season seems to have been afflicted by a particularly painful juxtaposition of bad timing and misjudgments.

29.   Call it bad timing.

30.   Day One is especially bad timing.