"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.
IPB, although a popular retail bank, had a bad reputation for buying political favours from both main parties.
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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The worst that can happen to a bad leader is a bad reputation.
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.
It has a bad reputation as a transit point for smuggled drugs, often imported from Kosovo, and for trafficking in illegal migrants.
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.
"So, it's an uphill battle in that respect to overcome a bad reputation that had existed in the past and I think is being overturned by their current performance, " Boslego says.
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.
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