Word: losses
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...town's decline started in the 1970s, when the old Route 301 was replaced by I-95 as the main connector to Florida. The town lost motels and restaurants, says Jackson, the mayor since last November. But the more recent closure of a nearby carpet factory, with the loss of some 200 jobs, deepened the problems in the town and the entire county...
...about Citi's solvency, so Citi was able to book $2.5 billion in gains. Got that? Without that boost, Citi's $1.6 billion in quarterly profit would have been more than wiped out. As it was, holders of Citi's common stock still had to take a $966 million loss because of accounting adjustments related to the planned conversion of preferred shares owned by the U.S. government and other investors into common stock. Again, got that...
...While mortgage losses show faint signs of moderating, banks still have a lot of credit-card ugliness to work through. At JPMorgan Chase, card services was by far the worst-performing division, with a loss of $547 million. When Whitney asked CEO Jamie Dimon if the business would return to profitability this year, his answer was a succinct "No." At Citi, "credit-card losses seem to be breaking their historical correlation with unemployment," CFO Kelly said. That is, credit-card losses normally rise with the unemployment rate. Now they're rising faster...
...sure you're counting them all but not double-counting. When you don't have an accurate baseline you don't have a good understanding of how the species works and what the threat is. Walrus are an ice-dependent species so there are also climate change concerns. The loss of ice is affecting their reproduction and the success of young walruses. (See pictures of global warming...
...officials could reasonably calculate that pulling U.S. troops from Mosul in step with the withdrawal timetable would preserve what overall gains the surge has made. In that case, al-Maliki may simply leave Mosul to its current status quo and chalk up the city as a sufferable loss to an insurgent movement that neither his forces nor the U.S. military has so far found a way to eliminate...