But it does nothing to reduce the risks that the movie will be a box-office dud.
For stock pickers in particular, this may not be a dud market after all.
As a heist movie, however, this is a dud, the plot splintering badly in the middle.
But at first Spirit's landing site at Gusev Crater was a bit of a dud.
If they did, though, stats from IBM Smarter Commerce suggest these initiatives were a dud.
And the player gets to actually play and prove that he's not a dud.
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Instead, her latest credits include box office dud The Back Up Plan and shelved album Love?
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It fell like a dud when we said, well, is that a planted question.
Not to mention it turned the latest renewal of the famed rivalry into a colossal dud.
So far, the much-anticipated Fed policy statement is a dud for the market place.
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David had always thought her the dud Hart, the least necessary of the bunch.
Two of the remainder remain unsellable because they are still saddled with dud loans.
When Apple Computer introduced the first PowerBook in 1991, it was a dud.
So like counterparts in Asia, Malaysia's dud-loan disposal unit will depend on limited domestic resources.
President Ahmadinejad's speech before the UN General Assembly in September was a towering diplomatic dud.
As such, it came off as an ineffectual dud, not a memorable bit of political repartee.
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No matter that when Windows 1.0 did finally appear, three years later, it was an ugly dud.
Last month, it was Vanity Fair basically calling Obama a dud (See: Hollywood Liberals Bored With Obama).
One suggestion is that dud banks should be closed down in order to save the good ones.
The U.S. auto market, long seen as a dud in the sector, is rebounding here and globally.
Glamor was a dud in its own day but is valuable now because Gottlieb made only 300 copies.
If just one of the 50 is a dud, then that cup will be perceptibly less than perfect.
For all the Germans' much-vaunted efficiency in other enterprises, their wartime spy organisation, the Abwehr, was a dud.
These would collect loans from dud borrowers, and even attempt to restructure some.
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Now investors move on to arguing over whether Botox for migraines will be a big product or a dud.
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There is nothing special going on at this company, and at this point we must deem it a dud.
The private sector, presumably knowing a dud when it sees one, will not put up money for the bridge.
In providing a real return, something you can live on, diamonds are a dud--unless you use one on a ring.
Of course, the drug would turn out to be a commercial and clinical dud, divested a few years after approval.
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The results will be ugly for some, given how slow they have been to build reserves and acknowledge dud loans.
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