And that level would match the worst quarter of the last six years.

With a record like that, what's a couple of bad quarters?

Before sleep came to him he suffered a bad quarter of an hour.

"We always seem to have one bad quarter and it costs us."

Still, few analysts said they thought that a bad first quarter prompted the change.

It was like having a bad quarter in one of my businesses.

And they understand that a strong, fundamentally sound company can have a bad quarter.

"That was probably the worst quarter of football I've played in my life," he said.

I think you're going to see a couple more really bad quarters.

The stock market as a whole just finished one of its worst quarters ever.