"We got a bad reputation, " says Bathum, who offers no excuses for the lapse.
He earned a bad reputation in Philadelphia but received referrals from across the Eastern Seaboard.
An insider trying to buy in shares would benefit from a bad reputation, since he could buy more cheaply.
"Gresford always had a bad reputation even before the disaster, " Mr Rowlands said.
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Vuvuzelas got such a bad reputation that they were also barred from the Wimbledon tennis championship at the All England Club.
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Financial innovation has a bad reputation at the moment, because exotic derivatives were one of the causes of the credit crunch.
This hub has a bad reputation from its frequent weather delays, but stuck travelers should consider exploring the Second City.
While historically, bats have had a bad reputation around the world, in Texas, these nocturnal cave dwellers are loved and cherished.
British food has a bad reputation, but local fare prepared with more than just a nod toward age-old culinary traditions is must-try.
You know, in the beginning we had trouble recruiting people because many people would not take jobs that had such a bad reputation.
If you need a modern example of how hard it is to recover from a bad reputation, look no further than Detroit and General Motors.
"Microsoft had a bad reputation among Internet elitists mostly because of the browser wars" in 2000 when Microsoft put Netscape out of business, he says.
Too often IT gets a bad reputation for not communicating well.
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Is Ross Mandell a zebra that never changed his stripes, or is he a victim of having a bad reputation in the midst of a bad investment?
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Having been stung by the tiny pests, I couldn't believe some marketing genius could get away with naming any product after an insect with such a bad reputation.
Keynes has a bad reputation nowadays with most Forbes readers.
The health center had such a bad reputation that locals would walk miles to avoid going there, says Ranvir Dhillon, an American medical student who helped out in Mayange for 18 months.
In a January 2009 appeal, he told an administrative law judge he stopped working as a union carpenter because "I wasn't getting along with a lot of people and I was getting a bad reputation, like I was losing control of, I guess, my nerves, " according to records from a later federal-court hearing.
Brown's tumultuous relationship with singer Rihanna and foul-mouthed Twitter presence have given him a bad boy reputation.
Even if someone has lived a perfect, blameless life, someone else with the same name could have a very bad online reputation that impacts the job seeker.
Denise Sides, 57, says the ex-Wales midfielder was a teenager with a "bad boy" reputation when he was first brought to her to improve his footwork.
Quebecois chef Martin Picard, who was born just outside of Montreal, has earned a reputation for bad-boy interpretations of classic Canadian dishes such as poutine (which he tops with foie gras) and a shepherd's pie made with venison.
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One way to torpedo that earnings potential is by establishing a reputation as a bad employee.
As Howard points out, your disgruntled employees, audit committees, competitors, vendors and suppliers, and potentially even your own friends can purposely or unwittingly become a part of the resulting bad reputation and press.
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Since then, says Joseph Grundfest, a law professor at Stanford University and former commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, directors have realised that failure to sack a bad boss is bad for their own reputation.
These days, your reputation can be tarnished by a bad customer review on Facebook, Twitter, or Yelp.
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