Coffee Republic has seen more than 80% wiped off the value of its shares since the start of 2001, as competition in the sector increased and the company lost key management.
So when the Democrats lost a key Senate seat in the Massachusetts special election a couple of months ago, it was expected that the health care bill would be defeated easily.
But the hearts-and-minds policy was mired in Whitehall disputes and at one point lost many of the key thinkers - Muslim and non-Muslim - who had been recruited to run it.
The NFL champions lost two key components of their defense in Kruger and Ellerbe.
He denounced as "utterly pathetic" the fact that on conference's key pensions vote, lost by the party leadership, it had been the unions' votes that had carried the day rather than constituency parties' votes.
Time and again the owners have had the upper hand in the NBA and players have lost key opportunities to establish their position.
The company rapidly lost market share because it was short of the key components to make home computers.
It is no coincidence that the defeats by Chelsea and Real Madrid came after Barcelona lost key striker Samuel Eto'o because of a serious knee injury at the end of September.
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But manager Mark Robinson believes it is even more remarkable given the county not only lost the services of Adams over the winter, but also key spinner Mushtaq Ahmed to retirement.
After the visitors lost openers Joe Denly and Rob Key cheaply, Jones shared stands of 137 with Martin van Jaarsveld (51) and 54 with Sam Northeast (65).
Histon lost four key players over the summer, but despite a slow start to the new campaign seem to be showing signs of returning to their best.
But he also says that one of the key reasons why the Tories lost the 1997 election was that many voters took the Conservatives' belief in the free market to mean that they were willing to destroy institutions and traditions which the electorate held dear.
Although it has lost a few key cases, the IRS still loathes family partnerships and remains unrelenting in its scrutiny of them.
Russia lost no time in claiming that Chechnya was the key to the problem.
The key need was in the secondary, which lost five of the six players who saw time.
This is doleful news: a recent study of people who had both lost weight and stayed slim found that exercise was the key to their success.
Tony Webber is a man who has won and lost elections in Guernsey over the years and he said the key to getting elected is "to be very confident and do your research properly".
They have also lost several other key players to free agency during the last few months, giving Ryan a new-look roster to work with in a season that could affect his long-term future with the franchise.
According to a survey by Spectrem Group, financial advisors are largely treading water with many wealthy investors, and worse, have lost significant ground with a key wealth segment, the company said in a press release.
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And the visitors' chase went from bad to worse when they lost key men Cook, who gave a catch to short extra cover, and Ryan ten Doeschate, run out for 22 after a direct hit by Hildreth, with the score on 33.
After the passage of the Credit Card Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, which placed tough new restrictions on some of the fees that card companies can charge customers, consumer advocates complained that some issuers were circumventing or ignoring key strictures of the law to make up for lost fee income.
Republicans, who have lost four of the last six presidential elections, are moving in key battleground states to change electoral voting from winner-takes-all to a distribution of votes depending on the popular vote.
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France lost key midfielder Patrick Vieira to a hamstring strain midway through the second half but maintained the pressure amid the tiredness as the error count rose.
Turkey's chances were not helped when key player Marsel Ilhan, who lost to Ward in the singles on Saturday, opted to pull out before the game due to mental and physical tiredness.
Beckham lives in Los Angeles with his family but regularly returns to Britain and was a key member of the England 2018 World Cup bid, which lost out to Russia in the vote earlier in December.
Malaysia's governing coalition won a key election in the Borneo state of Sarawak over the weekend, but it lost most of the ethnic Chinese vote.
If one should occur, support may break off in favor of former prime minister Lee Soo Sung, who lost on the first ballot but retains the loyalty of many of the president's key backers.
This lets you impose the highest levels of corporate security and provides a fast-track route to restore any faulty devices and minimize downtime for key people, by completely wiping a lost or stolen device and rebuilding the replacement.
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By using the Family Spending Survey (FSS) to estimate a few key expenditure items, some individual household accuracy is lost.
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