Since individual investors using this strategy must wait 30 days before repurchasing any stock sold at a loss to avoid triggering the wash sale rule, these stocks can decline in December and rise in January.
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Others tend to see their goals as opportunities to avoid loss and to stay safe.
When an entity shifts focus from how to change and grow to how to avoid loss, at that moment it begins to die.
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The U.S. government takes great care in deciding to pursue an al Qaeda terrorist, to ensure precision and to avoid loss of innocent life.
It stipulates, among other things, standardised forms that all patent offices must accept, basic standards for electronic submission of patents, and mechanisms to avoid loss of rights due to non-essential formalities or unintentional delays.
Then you just need to save your work and wait a few seconds before you shut down, to avoid data loss.
Before upgrading, I fully backed up the device to avoid the loss of irreplaceable media and keep my device from ending up a brick.
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CMOs buy ideas to make a gain or avoid a loss.
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Kiley didn't know if she believe in God, but her prayer helped her avoid the loss of control that doomed some of her companions in the boat.
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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So if the government were to start the unwieldy process of privatising RBS (which would almost certainly be the biggest privatisation in UK corporate history), what price would it need to receive for the shares to avoid a loss?
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Second, what UBS has provided is useful detail about the mechanics of the transactions - and why it failed to identify them till it was too late to avoid a colossal loss - but important questions remain unanswered.
In Michigan, the state where Romney was born and raised and where his father served as governor, the on-again, off-again front-runner had to wage a tougher-than-expected campaign to avoid an embarrassing loss to Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator.
This applies if you paid off a lien placed against your property by material suppliers because of debts owed by a builder or contractor, and you made the payment so as to avoid foreclosure and loss of your property.
The theory behind stop-loss orders is that they enable you to avoid a meltdown in the stock, and thus they protect you from a loss or preserve your profit.
If the sale was solely to realize a capital loss for taxation purposes, the investor will want to re-establish the position after the 30-day period required to avoid the superficial-loss rule.
The question for the Stern Review analysis then effectively becomes: is it worthwhile to sacrifice costs a given percentage of GDP now to avoid a given percentage loss of GDP (i.e. damages) a century from now?
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The Canadiens entered the third period down 2-0, but got goals from Max Pacioretty and Colby Armstrong to tie the game and avoid only their second regulation loss in their past 18 games.
Kevin Martin scored 25 for Oklahoma City, which trailed for much of the game but was able to avoid repeating its Game 1 loss from when these two teams met in the West semifinals two years ago.
Under the mitigation of damages doctrine, a party that suffers damages as a result of a breach of contract has a legal duty to mitigate those damages by taking reasonable action, wherever practicable, to avoid additional injury and minimize its loss.
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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.
But avoid cooking your books so you show a huge loss one year and a tiny profit the next--that could be fraud.
Staying lean during their single season in the top flight allowed them to avoid the forced cuts most relegated teams face with the loss of Premier League revenue.
The Justice Department's lawyer, Mr. Buterman, said the contract provision all but assured publishers would beg off the wholesale model, to avoid having to match lower prices and absorb the margin loss.
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When a storm causes widespread destruction or loss of life, its name is retired, not only to avoid reminding the victims of the horrors they experienced but also to keep the record straight.
The humiliating 3-2 Euro-Africa Zone Group Two loss in Vilnius leaves Britain facing a July play-off against Turkey to avoid demotion to the Davis Cup's lowest tier.
The fine and the loss of several contracts left it struggling to find the financial backing it needs to avoid going into administration.
Overweight people who want to avoid gallstones should try to lose weight, but do it gradually, as sudden weight loss can trigger gallbladder disease.
Many upscale markets manage to avoid price declines for awhile, he says, as homeowners reluctant to sell at a loss pull their properties off the market, hoping to ride out the storm.
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