Big publishers will also take a hit on books shipped and sold through the holidays.
If you have an amount in the "past due" column, expect to take a hit on your credit rating.
Instead the Treasury Department changed course and injected money directly into the banks (many of which refused to take a hit on all their busted paper).
Other plans agreed in July, to make private investors take a hit on any default by Greece on its debts, are also now seen as insufficient.
This simply means it makes more sense to walk away and take a hit on the credit grade than to pay for something that is not worth the value anymore.
It's news, even if it is completely unclear, right now, how the ECB could take a hit on its future bond holdings when it had previously suggested this was not legally possible.
Couple thoughts on CBS here: "Two and a Half Men" is now on Thursday nights, so that was a calculated decision by the network to strengthen one night and potentially take a hit on this one.
While he's cryptic about what that means, he does note that there would be a shift away from valuing gross margins -- in other words, the company may take a hit on profits to make its device sales sing.
Sounds less like Apple is trying to look out for consumers (who may end up paying a little more for Made for iPod accessories unless manufacturers decide to take a hit on their margins) and more like they're just looking for a way to get a nice chunk of the rapidly-growing market for third-party accessories without actually having to sell anything extra themselves.
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But it seems Apple might have to foot a part of the subsidy bill and take a hit on margins for such a contract to happen. (see Apple Faces China Mobile-Sized Stumbling Block Limiting China Upside Potential) Penetrating China could mean long-term margin pressures as well as the company seeks to compete against the rapidly growing Android market, mitigated to an extent by the carrier subsidies.
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In addition, euro-zone members would likely have to take a large hit on governmental and central banks' loans to Greece.
"Most presidential administrations prefer to take a hit early on, " says Sy Harding, editor of Street Smart Report and a big believer in the midterm election cycle.
Sports business analyst Drew Barrand says organizers might take a slight hit on food and drink sales if people choose to vacate the venue during England games, but doesn't expect the decision to have any major impact on the business success of the event.
So banks and other financial institutions may have to take a 50% hit on their investments.
But the fact is that we are still making progress, and that proves how resilient the American economy is, and how resilient the American worker is, and that we can take a hit and we can keep on going forward.
A. program, people are looking for a change, to hit the reset button on life, take a more meaningful path.
"They know their standing in the community is going to take a hit, " wrote one commentator on geek site Slashdot.org in response to the news.
If taxes rise next year, the garbage collectors will take a hit from the elimination of tax breaks on depreciation.
But how much of a hit the economy will eventually take clearly depends on how long the uncertainty is going to persist into 2013.
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H-P stockholders take a big hit, careers will be ruined (on both sides of the deal) and whatever marketplace promise Autonomy had may be destroyed.
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He was referring to earlier comments from a top Romney adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, who said his campaign will "hit a reset button" to take on Obama in the fall if Romney wins the GOP nomination.
According to Einstein, the force of gravity keeping your feet on the ground is fundamentally identical to the force slamming your body forward when you hit the brakes on the highway or take a sudden sharp turn.
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Nick Bonino scored on the power play 18 seconds after Abdelkader was ejected for his hit on Lydman, and Anaheim went on to a 4-0 victory Saturday night to take a 2-1 series lead over the Red Wings in the Western Conference playoffs.
Expect Mayan cosmology to take a hit to its reputation when the world doesn't end on Dec. 21, 2012.
Highlights include The Incredibly Short Film Festival on 31 May (each of the 30-second GIF or animated loop films are sourced from artists, animators and illustrators from around the globe) and The Making of a Blockbuster Game on 4 June (US game designer Ricky Cambier will take gaming enthusiasts behind the scenes on making and marketing a smash hit).
Overall, says the Pew Center on Climate Change, gross domestic product would initially take a hit.
Bank of America has reported a big fall in quarterly profits after it had to take another financial hit on bad mortgage debt.
Yum had warned investors on February 4, noting earnings would probably take a big hit in the first half of the year given the probe by Shanghai authorities, as my colleague Abram Brown reported.
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The scriptless films, which first hit the Web in June, sometimes take on the look of a car wreck in slow motion.
The finance committee said it was not convinced the NHS would come in on budget, with a risk that other departments will take a hit as a result.
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