But as Matthew Herper observed back in June, Medtronic has received something of a black eye this year in connection with its promotion of a key product, recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2, (rhBMP-2) which is designed to speed healthy bone growth and fusion in patients with back pain.
And the image of his black eye that police captured in his mug shot, the result of a run-in with a bystander who was trying to prevent the Olympic gold medalist from fleeing from the police.
That was something of a black eye for the bank when compared with rivals, as the likes of JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo won approval to return more capital to shareholders and Bank of America knew better than to even ask until 2013.
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One of them had a black eye and bruised ears and clearly looked as if he'd been beaten.
On a recent day, Mr. VanDemark patrolled his students' workout sporting a cutoff T-shirt and the remnants of a fairly spectacular black eye that he'd sustained during an early-morning sparring session.
If that wasn't bad enough, AOL yesterday received a black eye when the University of Michigan released an annual study finding that AOL scored the lowest in the category of Web portals for customer satisfaction.
Not the least of the damages was the significant black eye sustained by the NASDAQ operator.
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Nothing short of paying up will remove this black eye from Poland as it prepares to assume the E.
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Throwing a football around wearing tight pants and eye black may seem the opposite of the world of business, but I think the two share important similarities.
Neil Sugarman, managing partner at GLP Solicitors, said there were "rumours" that lower award compensation, for injuries ranging from a black eye to scratching or some forms of sexual assault, could be removed from the scheme entirely.
In homage to the Surrealists, Louboutin once created a pair of pumps with a hydrodynamic shape, a bulging eye above the pinkie toe, and tessellating rows of black and gold scales the foot as a fish.
Here, plastics that are black to the eye actually reflect a reasonable amount of light, so it is possible to get a meaningful absorption spectrum.
That--or another chance to squander the trust of consumers and give other struggling entrepreneurs a black eye.
She appears to have a black eye, and she's holding the hand of a crying, barefoot girl with a large heart on her blue T-shirt.
The revelation, made Friday by Adam Gowdiak of Poland-based Security Explorations, is the latest black eye for Oracle's Java software framework which is installed on more than 1 billion PCs, smartphones, and other devices.
"Losing your job isn't the end of the world of course, but it's still like getting a black eye, " she says.
Available in stunning White, classic Black or eye-catching Pink it houses a feature-rich range of specs, with technology such as Smart Auto 2.0 and the Smart Link Hot Key, making it simpler than ever to shoot and share great images instantly.
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BlackRock's concern is that problems at some of the higher-risk ETFs could potentially give the whole category a black eye.
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"People like to sort of think that, 'Well, abuse is just when you have a black eye, you sustain a broken bone, ' " Bonomi said.
But "every one of those stops was memorable, " Closson says, explaining why, despite a black eye and a permanent indentation in his head, he signed up for Nemitz's trip through Tuscany in 1998.
The plane's grounding on Jan. 16, an enormous black eye for Boeing, marked the first time since 1979 that FAA had ordered every plane of a particular type to stay out of the air for safety reasons.
While this is a great list of games, it will be interesting to see what impact this has on the entire launch black eye.
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News Corp. has apologized for the paper's use of phone hacking to pursue information, and Mr. Murdoch has called it a "major black eye" for the company.
Ms Miller's ear for the language, both black and white, her eye for gesture and pose, above all her feel for the bitter clarity of adolescence, make this a remarkable book.
How can your company gather the courage to zig while the rest of the herd zags, so you can get some shut eye by the time the next Black Friday rolls around?
Wearing a splendid pair of high heels and a black wrap dress with cuts and slashes entwined with what looked to an untutored eye to be medical bandages, Dame Vivienne found the large, soft-looking armchair too hard and uncomfortable.
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