Any profits or commissions that Morgan Stanley booked on this IPO are overwhelmed by the reputation hit that it took and the consequences this will have on future deals.

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Meanwhile, the consequences for those who took to social media to record the events have come in the form of permanently-damaged Google footprints and lost academic opportunities.

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And this season even the television show Homeland took the opportunity to address, through the wife of a former prisoner of war, the totally unanticipated emotional consequences resulting from the trauma that combat veterans bring back from the field.

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They faced the consequences of their actions, and they took their punishment.

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The result, according to Thorsager Scheffler, was that leaders felt far better prepared for the various phases of change, and were able to reflect better on the wider consequences of their decisions before they took them.

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Javier Bardem, his menace half-masked by a comical haircut, plays a calm, unstoppable psychopath on the trail of a stolen two million dollars. (His presence is both frightening and entertaining, if never wholly credible.) Various unfortunates cross his path and suffer the consequences, but his principal target is Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), a passing hunter who took the money.

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It took a long time to build up the excesses in our markets, and we are now working through the consequences.

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