Mr Oudea rejects the idea of a systemic failure, arguing that the loss was a product of a particular time and place: a period of rapid growth in equity derivatives, which overstretched the bank's capacity to monitor itself, and a peripheral trading desk where people were less jumpy about the risk of fraud.
Toughness--a combination of quality, durability and all-around staying power--is increasingly important to consumers anxious about credit problems and potential job loss, says Raffi Festekjian, senior manager of product research and analysis at J.
In an industry which has seen costs rocket and the value of its product tumble over the last 18 months, producing at less of a loss is welcomed.
Heber's book and the name of his weight-loss plan promote the company's signature product.
To arrive at their 2004 revenue estimate, the companies' well-paid advisers seem to have examined historical growth rates at both companies, interpolated them into the future and whacked 4.5% off the total to reflect the inevitable loss of business that occurs as two companies trim sales forces and eliminate product lines.
It just seems like making Starcraft free to play would be Blizzard giving away their product with no ideas of how to offset the revenue loss.
The BEA was recording all of the effort going into designing the iOS product line as pure loss.
Technical development is resulting in a gradual loss of traditional know-how, and tourism is jeopardizing the Gelede by turning it into a folklore product.
One can only speculate about the loss of Steve Jobs, the genius-tyrant whose thumbprint has been on almost every brilliant and elegant product to ever come out of Apple.
The loss economists loath from monopolies results from supra-competitive pricing, which transfers some of the economic value of a product from the consumer to the producer.
Jobs was a product guy, his love of the product led to great innovations, but his actions were ultimately governed by a profit and loss mechanism that redounded in amazing ways to his myriad worshippers.
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What they discussed is secret (speculation is that it could also involve manufacturing related to an iTV product), but industry observers believe that Apple must be alarmed in the extreme at the possible loss of intellectual property to Samsung as the result of a Samsung-Sharp equity tie-up.
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