There were plenty of sensible, well-funded bankers to pick up the pieces of the broken ones and make something good of them.

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Same goes for Blake Griffin, last year's top NBA pick who sat out his rookie season with a broken kneecap, and Minnesota Twins relief pitcher Joe Nathan, healthy and productive for seven straight years before going out with a shoulder injury this season.

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If the losses and liquidation pick up steam, and the 20-day moving average is broken on a closing basis, it would open the door for addition losses throughout the week.

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Others in the advertising industry fear that when the economy does eventually pick up, the old link between GDP and ad spending will prove to have been broken, because the cyclical downturn will have accelerated several structural trends that were already hurting conventional advertising.

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