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Following the Bureau of Economic Analysis, they acknowledge that disaster losses are made up of two components (destruction of assets and the disruption of the flow of capital), making them different from economic losses.

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Town and city officials in Florida struggling to make payroll are likely to face more big troubles--and more losses than they have been led to believe--an analysis of a state investment fund indicates.

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Fewer qualifying people would mean 160, 000 fewer Motability cars on the road, the analysis suggested, which in other research has been linked to economic losses such as fewer jobs in the Motability-related industries, and lower GDP contributions.

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Kansas City is one of only 15 cities with a population of at least 200, 000 in 1950 that saw substantial population losses since World War II but have rebounded in recent years, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by Jordan Rappaport, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

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Reynolds says, based on his analysis, the BCS ranking system does no better than a simple formula combining wins and losses with respect to the quality of opponents beaten.

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"It is very likely there are huge losses still to come, " says economist Bismarck Rewane, of Financial Derivatives, a finance research and analysis firm.

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