Sometimes it is quite minor, only causing you to be dissatisfied with someone, and other times there is real negative impact, like reputation damage or even financial loss.
If you want to avoid a mass exodus (or even the loss of a few key players) as more jobs become available, make inspiring and engaging your employees a top priority.
Amazon sold many books, particularly best-sellers, for little more than the wholesale price, or even at a loss.
Selling things at break even or even at a loss is nothing new.
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Finally, look at prices at wholesale clubs and grocery stores, which sometimes sell gas at cost or even at a loss to attract customers into the store.
"In fact it probably means in many cases the supplier is making no profit or even operating at a loss, " they said.
The big question for Lilly: Can it stabilize the loss, or even turn the trend around?
At root, it is the modern belief that the essence of moral action is neither expecting nor receiving any personal benefit (or, even better, suffering a loss from that act) that underlies the condemnation of profit-seeking.
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What if the decision you make to protect long-term viability eliminates near term profit, or even causes the company to pivot entirely or to temporarily run at a loss?
Many insurance companies even operate at or near an underwriting loss and expect to make up profits on its investment portfolio by reinvesting the float.
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The impact on these firms is much bigger than in the Big 4 where a sanction or loss of one partner, even for a large ugly fraud is diluted by the sheer numbers of partners who can step up in his or her place.
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Too much mercury in one's diet from any source can cause loss of coordination, blindness or even death.
Even so, the net gain or net loss will be small, however, because exports and imports move up and down together.
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If you want to reduce your taxes, you might want to choose the highest-priced shares you own, or even select those for which you will show a loss.
In fact, great companies, great individuals, even great sports teams, need a loss or two to bring them back to earth.
When such trading glitches occur, the market often reverses itself meaning a trader with an electronic stop-loss order would have avoided losses, or even made money, if the sudden swing hadn't occurred.
"Being able to feel the effects of tiredness, loss of coordination and even passing out or vomiting are the body's defenses against consuming doses of alcohol that will kill you, " professor Ken Briggs said.
To the extent that employers respond to the employer mandate by reducing hiring, or even laying off existing workers, that will cause a loss of income tax and payroll tax revenues, further adding to the deficit.
If we are to prevent such an unacceptable outcome and defeat those seeking to impose it - or even just to reduce the danger of further, needless loss of American lives, we must say the unsayable: Adherents to the ideology of Shariah are our enemies, just as were the Nazis, the fascists and communists.
And if tuition, or retirement arrives and your bond fund is underwater by a lot, or even a little, you may be reluctant to take the loss.
Sometimes being more generous to workers may mean the loss of business to lower-cost rivals, or even the eventual demise of the firm.
Or consider selling your home, even if you have to take a slight loss.
Despite Mr. Romney's loss, the financial sector has other means to delay or even overturn some parts of the law.
Corporate development teams are increasingly looking outside of their organization to help keep up with marketplace demands and avoid the loss of market share that can happen with a sluggish or even delayed time to market.
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Ending on a positive note, the realty is that even after the loss of a loved one, whether by death or break-up, the odds of recovery are in your favor.
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Making matters worse, a taxpayer may need to compute his adjustment even in the event that the sale of stock or a partnership interest generates a loss.
Despite this, and prior to recently released guidelines from the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission, there were no guidelines as to when a corporation should publicly disclose the loss of confidential information or disruption to a system caused by a cyber incident even where the incident caused financial losses.
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Over the past two years, Strut Your Stuff has inspired people to go out in their community for the first time without a cosmetic cover, reveal to co-workers that they're living with a prosthetic, or even leave the confines of their own homes, which they hadn't done since their limb loss.
Even better: If this deduction creates a loss, it may be used against other wages or carried back to generate a refund.
But even the loss of an election does not require the abnegation faced by a bankrupt entrepreneur, or the recanting expected of a scientist whose findings have been falsified.
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