Word: losses
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...Unfortunately, money takes precedence over everything, even health. Businesses do not like to see their pockets picked twice by an unruly and inconsequential panic. That aversion to loss will only make things worse if thousands and thousands of people begin to die and commercial interests are slow to recognize it and slow to react...
...Yale Game Score: 10-0 Temperature at 2008 Harvard-Yale Game, in Farenheit: Really, really, really cold. Harvard real estate holdings: 4,947 acres Number of student centers: 0 centers Fall-term enrollment in Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics”: 812 students Harvard Endowment Loss: Over eight billion Length of Girl Talk’s performance: 20 minutes Number of times CEB representatives swore at the audience: A whole fucking lot. Harvard professors lost to the Obama Administration: 13 professors Yale professors lost to the Obama Administration: 1 professor Yardfest attendance: 7,100 people Number...
...First Lady might save another retailer, Talbots, from extinction. The company lost $128.4 million, excluding special charges, in the three months ending Jan. 31, compared with a $7.1 million loss the previous year. Same-store sales fell 14.2% for the year, and an incredible 24.6% in the fourth quarter. Over the past year, the company has desperately tried to reposition itself from a frumpy brand for the over-50 set to a stylish look for the new sophisticated 40-something. In early April, the May issue of Essence hit newsstands, with Obama wearing a $169 Talbots silk dress...
...Home-equity insurance. We want to have homeowners' insurance, which protects against things like fires, updated so that it protects against a loss of market value. Fires were a big problem hundreds of years ago. Houses were burning down all the time. Now we've developed a different problem-the residential housing market has gotten much more volatile...
...This year, farmers will likely suffer heavy losses, as the sale price of their hogs does not meet the cost of raising the animals. The recent price fall could be realized as a $10 to $20 per head loss in the next 12 months, predict Ward and Iverson. Pork processors have already lowered their bids for pigs, given the great degree of uncertainty in predicting the demand for pork...