"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.
These precautions could have done much to eliminate the bad experiences and bad reputation merchant advances and factoring loans acquired during 2008-2009.
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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.
The murder rate has fallen substantially since 2010, according to Chihuahua state figures, but the bad reputation is not likely to fade fast.
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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.
Along with success came pressure to record a quick follow-up, and within the next 18 months, Thin Lizzy churned out Johnny the Fox (1976) and Bad Reputation (1977) while touring constantly.
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.
This is mainly a legacy of Soviet mistrust, coupled with the very bad reputation that charities connected to military ex-servicemen, the Russian Orthodox church and sport gained in the immediate post-Soviet period.
"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.
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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She did not receive a place at any of her five choices and was instead allocated a place at a school a little further away - one which Ms Hepburn considered unacceptable because of its "bad reputation".
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