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Is NOLOCK always bad?

I am a Report Developer who wants to make my queries as efficient as possible. I used to work with a DBA who told me - I believe because I was always dealing with reports on a Production Server - to ...
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Could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to data movement

We run SQL Server 2000 and we get a few of these errors every night. Could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to data movement The query that throws this error is a large complex query that joins ...
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Justify NOT using (nolock) hint in every query

Have you ever had to justify NOT using a query hint? I am seeing WITH (NOLOCK) in every single query that hits a very busy server. It is to the point that the developers think it should just be on ...