For the next year or two the combination of a rising loss ratio and policy acquisition costs will depress Geico's earnings.
The Atlas' flattery isn't perfectly executed, however -- the gamepad's shoulder buttons depress with a noticeably loud click and its triggers feel somewhat cheap when directly compared to Microsoft's original levers.
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While the writeoff will depress this year's numbers, the company has a solid core business and clever management.
The potential flood of new shares could further depress the company's stock price, though the company took steps this past week to reassure investors.
Every time it looks as if the government might push for British entry, the pound weakens, with currency traders reckoning that a decision to go in would prompt the government actively to try to depress the pound's value ahead of entry.
Now that's a thought to depress you if you're on the wrong side of 40.
There is a clear risk that it could depress demand below the government's forecasts.
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"It's the chance to depress more people than we've ever depressed in one go, " said guitarist and songwriter Martyn Peck.
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Gasoline prices could spike high enough this summer to significantly rattle consumer confidence and further depress an already sluggish U.S. home sales market.
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In a vicious circle, high rates depress investment, add to the government's borrowing costs (which total some 5% of GDP) and thus its fiscal deficit (of over 2% of GDP).
Don't North Korea's southern-pointing missiles tend to depress values and make the artists nervous?
And to keep its exchange rate pegged to the dollar, China has been buying vast amounts of American Treasury bonds, which has helped to depress bond yields and mortgage rates, fuelling America's property boom.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- OPEC's deliberations to cut oil output in March could depress fragile world economies, commentators said.
While there is much foreign interest in developing Iran's oil and gas sectors, two factors work to depress such investment.
Morgan Equity Research, says "there's huge excitement" about natural gas but infrastructure immaturity will depress truck sales.
If the home industry makes too much, it will depress the price of its exports on world markets, damaging the country's terms of trade, and hurting workers.
Weak interest rates could spur the U.S. economy, lifting oil demand, and they could also depress the value of the dollar, which would also put upward pressure on American energy costs.
The trial bar's strategy against corporate America up to now has been to file a suit, depress the stock price and bring the company to the table to get a settlement out of it, he said.
One worry is that drugs used to prevent rejection of a transplant depress the immune system, and "cancers can grow rapidly afterward, " said the UCSF's Dr. Tempero.
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The evaluation on the left is that this would simply depress economic activity and tax revenues further, and would do nothing to slow down the escalation of the UK's national debt, except in the very short term.
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