Wells Fargo again booked record-high quarterly profit even as its key mortgage unit lost ground.
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The worry that euro-zone countries such as Spain may suffer prolonged slumps because they lost control of unit wage costs lends the inflation test some weight, though not much.
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Recently the unit lost its brief to investigate firearms deaths as the force said it had led to an "unhelpful" situation where murders were distinguished on the basis of the weapon used, when the same offenders could be involved in both knife and gun deaths.
He said the unit had lost two men in the past month - one caught in crossfire in a similar operation, the other ambushed by a gang wanting to steal his gun.
When PlayStation 3 was released in November 2006, the company opined that it lost money on every unit sold. (Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) did the same thing when Xbox 360 was released in 2005.) As of February 2010, PlayStation 3 was still a monetary loser.
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The Wildcats never meshed as a unit, then lost the best of the freshmen when Nerlens Noel went down with a season-ending knee injury.
However, Watford ended Rangers' unbeaten start to the campaign with an emphatic 3-1 victory at Loftus Road in December and they wasted no opportunity to try to pressurise a defensive unit that had lost keeper Paddy Kenny to injury during the warm-up.
Lost battle to merge the LVMH drinks unit with Grand Metropolitan and Guinness.
Managers there, who lost a legal challenge to keep the unit open, had claimed closing it could put the entire hospital at risk.
Contracts are won and lost on a fraction of a cent per unit.
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But it won't take into account the business lost by the dry-cleaners in the unit next door, which is shuttered and dark - along with the bakery, the yoga centre, the hardware store and the market located nearby.
They have lived in a two-bedroom unit in a Brooklyn shelter since she lost an apartment that was government-subsidized up until last year.
They can carry five to 20 times more current in the same unit area while reducing the amount of energy lost as heat by 75-97% (depending on whether the current is alternating or direct), even after accounting for all the nitrogen-cooling paraphernalia.
His unit has calculated that some 2, 990 children lost a parent up to the age of 18.
Data accumulated by Reuters on cellphone unit sales by each manufacturer indicate that Motorola actually lost about 1.1 percentage points of market share in the third quarter to Nokia which slashed prices to gain share.
Data accumulated by Reuters on cellphone unit sales by each manufacturer indicate that Motorola actually lost about 1.1 percentage points of market share in the third quarter to Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) which slashed prices to gain share.
Over the long term, higher productivity growth and better-functioning labour markets are vital if economies in southern Europe are to regain the competitive ground they lost in the first decade of monetary union, when their unit labour costs soared relative to those in northern countries like Germany.
Deutsche Bank's unit, Bank-24, for example, has lost much of the business it hoped to win to ConSors and its kind.
The end result was that the unit suffered a partial core meltdown, and the public lost trust in the nuclear industry as a whole.
"I lost my position as a Commanding Officer of a Naval Security Forces reserve unit at NAS Fallon because of the LAPD, " he wrote.
The importance of such an investment was highlighted last year when Foster's Asian unit increased sales after its Japanese competitor, Shizoka, reportedly lost about a quarter of its rodent population to a viral outbreak.
If the marital household fails as a financial unit (like a company going under), job security is lost.
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Citigroup (C) lost Andrew Hall, a highly profitable commodities trading talent and head of a unit known as Phibro that traded out of a Connecticut farm house, to Occidental Petroleum (OXY).
All of which meant, after Labour lost the election, Mr Miliband, the former head of Tony Blair's policy unit, was in prime position to replace Mr Brown as party leader.
The biggest controversy is whether Pfizer will spin off its established products unit, which sells generic drugs and branded medicines like Norvasc and Zoloft that have lost patent protection.
The potentially iconic clear plastic at the base of the unit, the convex back, and the packed feeling of that handset has been lost to a more masculine beast of a phone.
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Citigroup shares lost over 4% Monday, after the firm named Mike Corbat Chief Executive of its Citi Holdings unit.
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where sickle cell patients go for treatment when suffering a sudden attack lost all five of its consultants and one of them is still in jail.
Iron ore was the largest contributor to Anglo's profit in 2011, but the firm said production at its key Kumba Iron Ore unit fell 19% to nine million tonnes, after five million tonnes of production were lost at its Sishen mine due to the strike.
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