The Japanese resort business is lousy these days, and Tsutsumi's company, Kokudo, is operating in the red.

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"What we found out was our cafeteria had actually been operating in the red even selling soda and potato chips hand over fist, " she said.

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Jason Todd was eventually resurrected, since of course no death has to be permanent in comics, and became an opponent of Batman for a while before reforming again, currently operating as the Red Hood in his own monthly series.

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It also was evidence that, in this era of the social Web, fashion designers and retailers are no longer operating in an ivory tower or for solely the red carpet.

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And, if possible, when it's time for surgery, the patient's sibling(s) take the patient to the operating room in a large red wagon filled with his or her toys.

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Even so, in contrast to only ten years ago, the firms operating in Kansas City today are largely the same as those trading soft red winter wheat at the Chicago Board of Trade and spring wheat at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.

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Meanwhile, cost of revenue and operating expenses exceed revenues and continue to keep the company in the red.

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