In a statement, an Access spokesperson says a holding company owned by Blavatnik was the owner of Basell prior to the Lyondell merger and that the returns he ultimately received during his beneficial ownership of that company have nothing to do with the loss he incurred from the merger.

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"BP knows there is nothing we can say to diminish their loss, " he said.

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But the Mets' 5-2 loss to the Nationals had nothing to do with gray skies or cloudy heads.

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Nor is it merely that temperature mitigation of this sort does nothing to deal with rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide that would also lead to acidification of the oceans and loss of biodiversity.

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Nothing went right for India, including the loss of in-form opener Virender Sehwag to injury before the start.

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Since negative returns are at play, a loss aversion mechanism kicks in, and people will actually go double or nothing in order to keep from losing thereby taking more risk.

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Unlike the multinational chemical and junk food manufactures who oppose PROP 37 because they fear loss of profits from the rejection of their never proven safe GMOs, we have nothing to financially gain or loose by the outcome of PROP 37.

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Everyone over the age of 40 was probably exposed to too much lead during childhood , and most of us suffered nothing more than a few points of IQ loss.

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Worse, the British veto did nothing to protect the City of London from tiresome EU regulations, and may even have made them likelier, as loss of clout in Brussels makes it harder to fend off new rules.

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