Some firms competing to write business have been burned by Katrina and Wilma recently.
Fund groups have become attractive takeover candidates, as many banks that own them have been burned by the prolonged financial crisis.
Fourteen police officers have been burned to death this way in the last decade, and eight have been hurt.
Investors "have been burned too many times, " Mr. Andersen said in an interview.
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More than 6, 500 acres (2600 ha) have been burned, and a cluster of motor homes were charred by the flames.
As I have learned from clients who have been burned, the additional risks related to dealing with these tony institutions are daunting.
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More than a few, though, have been burned trying to reach them.
Perry is sure that without them, his house would have been burned.
Since then, hundreds of children have gotten their fingers or hands stuck on the door and dozens have been burned - some seriously.
Their churches, homes and businesses have been burned, looted and destroyed.
Now that investors have been burned, the fear is that the current stock pullback could leave even companies with real potential starved for cash thereby stifling innovation.
No one has died so far this time, but more than 150 houses and 500, 000 hectares (1.2m acres) of land have been burned in 66 fires across New South Wales.
Investors have been burned and want to see change.
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But other experts have been burned already by this case, which began in the early 1990s when lawyers representing emerging-market plaintiffs thought they could pursue their lawsuits in U.S. courts and win lucrative settlements.
Their networks have been burned to the ground.
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Some seniors have been burned by cards with a short-term low interest rate followed by a high interest rate, so be sure to read the fine print and know how long the rate will last.
The area around the shop remains cordoned off and police have also been examining a number of other areas including one street, where it is thought a car used in the attack may have been burned out.
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Shallow burns hurt much more than deep ones - the nerves under the skin have not been burned away.
The committee decided to conduct the inquiry following a number of high profile cases where children have been severely burned through the unregulated and unsupervised use of sunbed salons.
Investors in Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ), including the billionaire (at least he once was) currency speculator Joe Lewis, and Citic Securities have been royally burned, providing a cautionary tale to any would-be angels.
Investors have seen such scenarios and been burned too many times over the years.
Many people have come to me having been burned by tax resolution scam operators.
Mr. Cameron's tactics don't appear to have been very effective: He burned political capital in return for nothing.
How often have investors started initiating positions and been burned just a few days later?
If Ed Koch had a spouse or children, the passion that burned for New York might have been dimmed, and with it the outsize personality we mourn today.
Some veteran investors say they have seen rallies that have been unsustainable and don't want to get burned again.
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