It's a move that leaves them open to being pushed into the negative point ("10 Off") grid, but, hey, it has to be done.
Those same balconies became a negative focal point in 1673, when King Carlos II decreed that shopkeepers could raise tarpaulins above their stalls to fend off the raw sewage that the residents habitually tossed from the windows above.
Economists at Goldman Sachs reckon that America's inflation rate will briefly turn negative at that point.
We also experienced about a 2 to 3 percentage point negative impact to sales due to supply disruptions related to the flooding in Thailand.
Are officials going to be trying to point out negative impacts of the sequester?
The fake Twitter feed began shortly after van Praag was profiled in the New York Observer on Feb. 16, in a story that could be said to be a tipping point of negative publicity for Goldman.
In the upswing, consumers took on mucho debt, the savings rate at one point dwelled in negative ground, normally 6 percent of personal income.
While there are a variety of methods and data sources, the results consistently point to significant negative effects of taxes on economic growth even after controlling for various other factors such as government spending, business cycle conditions, and monetary policy.
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Those efforts have proven a failure to this point, and a market that has been fairly sanguine about the potential negative implications of the fiscal cliff to this point had a violent reaction Friday morning, though the move was tempered somewhat after Boehner said he is still open to working with the White House on some form of compromise.
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Writing about the savings rate, the authors at one point wrote that it went negative.
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For one, when we have to deliver negative feedback we often soft pedal to the point of being downright confusing.
Negative events are inevitable and may, at any point in time, pose a threat to financial markets.
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Fitzpatrick also did not resort to attack ads, at one point asking national groups to stop running negative ads.
Fell felt that Cambridgeshire, who went into the match in second place in the division, one point behind Lincolnshire, had taken a negative stance in not trying to go for a victory.
One, the status quo bias, has to do with our tendency to take our current situation as our reference point and to see any change as negative (or at least difficult) and with a high potential for regret.
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Several days after the low (September 20) I became much more defensive as the weekly relative performance or RS analysis had formed a negative divergence and the daily OBV was below its WMA (point 7).
The point is that while overall money flow in Apple was negative, Smart Money was buying.
He says that while all couples deal with nagging at some point, those who learn to reduce this type of negative communication will substantially increase their odds of staying together and keeping love alive.
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For those who are not convinced of the value of relative performance, or RS analysis, I would point out that the RS analysis of the financial sector was negative early in the year, well before the fundamentals weakened.
But if you hone in on only the parts of the survey which you perceive as critical, or if you spend your time trying to figure out who wrote that semi-negative comment in the open-ended section, you are missing the point.
"Although the business case looks viable, the negative attitude of the French government has influenced Novartis' consideration to a point that it will only enter into a negotiation phase if formally invited by the Aventis supervisory board and if the French government assumed a neutral position, " Novartis wrote in a statement.
Potter was hoping that Cigna archrival Aetna would get most of the negative attention, but in fact Cigna was a major villain, at one point shown denying a cochlear implant to a deaf child.
At this point a two percent print is enough to keep more people positive than negative, but not enough for businesses to start hiring again.
But Figure 2 of the Blanchard-Leigh paper also shows strong negative relationships between fiscal consolidation and growth forecast errors for 2011 and 2012 so this point does not appear correct.
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But the Dow industrials stormed back from a more than 82-point drop to trade firmly in the black, staging their biggest swing from negative to positive territory in nearly six months.
Fitch, the ratings agency, helpfully made the chancellor's point for him last week when it put the UK's AAA rating on negative watch.
At one point, demand for two-year German debt was so high that yields turned negative, meaning investors were effectively paying to park their money in German bonds.
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This brings us to the third point: Why did Romney buy the election by carpet-bombing his opponents with negative ads and pretending for the first time in his political life to be "severely conservative"?
The point is that a bowler like Harmison can have such an impact a positive or negative impact on his team that he will always be a tough one to discuss at the selection table.
At one point, Genentech had conducted 15 gigantic studies of its medicines without a single one coming up negative.
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