The airline industry, despite usually loaded planes, is drowning in red ink because of rising fuel costs.
While Washington can wallow in red ink, states have to balance their budgets.
Penney reported a disastrous quarter awash in red ink, while Cisco Systems came out on the opposite side of the coin.
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To chart his progress toward "moral perfection, " Franklin kept a daily ledger in red ink of 13 virtues, from temperance to humility.
The culprit is not the trade deficit--the greenback showed strength against the euro in 2005 and much of this year, even though our trade account is allegedly drowning in red ink.
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In the red-ink-drenched biotechnology sector the success of Amgen takes on a fairy-tale quality.
In the red-ink-drenched biotechnology sector the success of Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) takes on a fairy-tale quality.
Painful revamping of a poorly integrated expansion led to red ink in 2001 and 2002.
And if the crowd in Washington can limit spending growth to about 2 percent each year, red ink almost disappears in just 10 years.
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Will carriers and manufacturers end up abandoning the whole concept when they realize there's a long trail of more red ink ahead (in the form of rollouts, marketing, hardware development, and the like) before they hit the black?
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To overcome any queasiness about seas of red ink, analysts take refuge in ten-year discounted cash-flow models.
The red ink is driven by growth in entitlement spending, most of it on Medicare, the government's health scheme for the elderly.
Despite strong numbers from its Chinese operations and a nascent turnaround in Europe, the core North American market in effect accounted for that entire flood of red ink.
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"I suppose that 10% mortgage rates, red ink at the companies or a major shift in demographics (immigration, household formations, aging population) would get me to change my tune, " he says.
While a growing economy will bring the annual deficit down to about 2.4 percent of Gross Domestic Product by 2015 (assuming, among other things, that discretionary spending remains capped in the way Congress and President Obama have agreed), the red ink will begin flowing faster again.
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Expanding capacity by issuing convertibles can be a risky strategy and lead to extreme heartbreak and red ink if mistimed, but expanding into an improving market can help propel results in a slingshot fashion.
Our leadership in Washington is faced with massive annual budget deficits and a future outlook that sees nothing but mounting red ink.
The company said a drop in selling, general and administrative expenses, and lower charges related to store closings helped decrease the red ink.
In a TV business that has lost money for eight consecutive years, that is 30 ways to spill red ink.
Wright's sampler globe delineates the continents, countries and oceans in ink, but the equator and arctic circles are stitched in white silk and the Tropics in red silk.
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For example, iron-gall ink, commonly used on ancient documents, is transparent to infra-red light and most visible in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.
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