Yet if that person made just one disdainful reference to someone you admired, that hot negative trigger would quickly rise to the top of your mind.

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The purchasee already has low marks, which will be inherited by the purchaser, in addition to which the ratings agencies are likely to downgrade the new entity and trigger other negative events.

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The negative thoughts, feelings and performance they trigger in others are far larger and longer lasting than the positive responses generated by more constructive colleagues.

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The immediate trigger was that sentiment had turned overly negative in the wake of reports by The Wall Street Journal and Nikkei of Japan.

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McCain and his swing-state town hall team were right in framing the consequences: If the trigger is pulled, sequestration will have immediate and negative impact on millions of Americans.

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We also continue to see downside risks as the recent negative sales trend could accelerate and the accumulation of product failures could trigger major write-offs and marketing extra-costs.

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Unlike the positive behaviors which require motivation, ability and a trigger to all be present at the same moment, the negative behaviors require this same triad of factors to be broken.

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Ultimately, sequester could be a trigger for a stock market set-back and would have an overall negative impact on U.S. economic growth, which will keep the U.S. Federal Reserve on its accommodative path.

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