1.   Today, the sick sweet smell from the chemical company in the industrial part of town seems especially bad.

2.   But everything seems so bad.

3.   But now that Frontiere and Shaw have reduced them to a faceless group of underachieving dullards, their departure does not seem so bad.

4.   But sometimes when things seem bad and times are tough, it helps to be reminded of what really matters.

5.   But when you try to raise new capital while acknowledging to investors that Nasdaq is on the verge of delisting your stock, dependence may not seem so bad.

6.   Every act of its proponents makes the deal seem bad, and every attack has the reverse effect.

7.   Everything that was good somehow seems bad.

8.   In any case, standing did not seem too bad when the proceedings proved interesting in one way or another.

9.   Inevitable change has a way of seeming bad to those, like parents, with roots in the past.

10.   Not as bad as they seem.