This will result in a nasty bout of price-cutting, middle-man slaying and industry reputation tarnishing.
Messrs Dell and Schultz both risk tarnishing their strong reputations with unimpressive second acts.
"We will not tolerate the tarnishing of the proud tradition of Grizzly athletics, " he said at the time.
County Sheriff Greg Hagwood says the troopers' zeal is tarnishing his office, too.
"I feel so bad for Nancy and the tarnishing of her family, " Mrs.
Most watches made today, even the most expensive, are built of brass, which is rhodium-plated before finishing to impede tarnishing.
Aside from ticking off your colleagues and possibly tarnishing certain relationships, talking about the election in the office could affect your work.
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Mr Gore, however, has always been Mr Clean, which is why his ratings with the public are slipping with every tarnishing allegation.
So why did the company bother with the quixotic effort to get its Vioxx sequel, Arcoxia, approved, especially at the risk of further tarnishing its image?
More recently, the chief concern by pundits has been that the NFL risked permanently tarnishing the integrity of the game through the use of replacement refs.
The only way to get rid of the resulting beef and butter mountains and wine and oil lakes was to subsidise their export, tarnishing Europe's free-trading credentials.
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"The Administration's decision to send the December 16 letter on the eve of the Court's decision risks tarnishing America's reputation as a nation that respects the role of independent judiciaries, " they write.
Since all of these domains are serving malware, they are now on one or more blacklists thus effectively tarnishing the names GreyLogic and IntelFusion and perhaps discouraging people from visiting the authentic sites.
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The tarnishing of its once-platinum reputation began long before June, when a U.S. judge found Microsoft guilty of violating anti-trust laws by leveraging its operating system monopoly to take over other parts of the software business.
Morningstar analyst Damien Conover said the consumer segment has been a chief revenue generator for the company in the past, but their "tarnishing image, " resulting from the product recalls, has been detrimental to the sensitive sector.
"This is yet another of several recent attempts by Southwest to add peripheral fees so that it can raise revenues without tarnishing its image, " wrote Brett Snyder, president of The Cranky Flier, in an e-mail.
With each such partner it embraces, Coke risks tarnishing its clean-cut image by associating with businesses that may partake in local traditions that can include bribing officials, paying retailers to shun rival brands and resorting to other unorthodox tactics.
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