"A negative outcome on ITC would basically cause a paralysis in the installation business, " Bachman said.

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As tonight shows us, in many cases, the things we take for granted are all susceptible to the same negative outcome.

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In other words, investors are giving the patent challenge more weight than they rationally should because a negative outcome--as seen with Prozac--would be so painful.

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Obviously Gaikai wants to make a splash with quality titles, but the reasoning goes further than that -- if gamers play a demo through the service and decide the title's not for them, that game's publisher ends up paying for a negative outcome.

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The foregoing is a negative long-term outcome.

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The Internet and its related technologies have made the process of outsourcing manufacturing so efficient that the effects on American jobs have overwhelmed the jiu-jitsu economic process of turning a negative thrust into a positive outcome.

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Conservative MEP Martin Callanan said he had hoped for a "smaller, leaner budget" but believed most people would be "reasonably satisfied" with the outcome "given the negative headlines" which preceded the summit.

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These are clearly disappointing results but such negative findings are unlikely to attract the same fanfare as Rothwell's positive outcome.

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