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Had they won, the upside would be significantly greater than the downside we're seeing . . . .

Refineries are going to be slow to recover. I'm not too excited about the downside for prices. We still have disruptions. We won't get a real picture of the market today because people are away in the U.S.

In order for the program to work it has to have some teeth and that's the downside if you're not willing to make a full-blown commitment.

The downside for them on the appraisal is it could come in at $650,000.

It's just so spread out, the rounds were really long, and that's the downside of it.

It's the end-of-the-year foolishness time, where you can run it up and run it down $10 on no news. I think it's a sell. But the downside in gold is limited.

Jerry Miller

It's a great day -- I'm glad to see the sun, ... The only downside is we have fewer volunteers -- people had priors plans. Right now, I have nobody to run the trolleys.

There's a lot of uncertainty about the outlook. There are a lot of risks, mainly downside risks.

The only downside that I see is possibly a low appraisal.

The only downside is that they're not as big as SUVs and can't go off road as much.

The only downside is that your yard will smell like an Italian restaurant for a few hours. If that's a downside.

Penn Jillette

Well, see, there's a downside to that, too,

The stock has a lot of downside and very little upside.

This is the downside of the lack of pollution in New Zealand.

Bill Brandt

This is the downside of doing an all-debt plan.

The weakness of Ford and GM has kept the microscope off of Chrysler. But they're also lagging the Japanese how fast they are getting new product out. Their product portfolio is not adequate. The 300 was a hit but the downside of the hot niche product, they have a short shelf life.

The real downside of this hysteria is that people hear rumors about outages in other towns and rush out to gas up, thereby increasing the likelihood of gas lines and outages in their own town.

Charles Schumer

Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outweighed the upside of him being a Rehnquist,

While there may still be some downside to earnings, we think the sharp reduction will likely be viewed as being relatively better than other companies, who may need several modest reductions or a sharper reduction in guidance later in the year.

We've had a nice run off of late-April's lows and the market is digesting these gains. We'll probably start moving to the downside next week.

We've had a lot of earnings that have been in line or better, and the Street's been yawning. If the earnings stay strong, we could hold at these levels, but any nasty downside surprise and we could see some selling.

Fed policy makers made a statement that they want to really underpin the recovery. They've seen the downside risks and they want to make sure that low inflation and disinflation does not morph into deflation.

There's scope for the euro on the downside especially if the riots continue. It's another reason to sell the euro.

There's skin around the lip that's kind of a natural lip liner. This is about a gift for communicating information about how people feel, including emotions, including sexuality. It shows that they have very high standards. The downside is that each can be his own harshest critic.

There's not much of a downside to self-service in a quick-service industry where the service element is marginal.

We haven't gotten any negative feedback. It's all positive; there's no downside to it. We see the results of husbandry training on a regular basis.

But the downside was not worth the risk. Anything that makes your performance better is always an athlete's goal ... You're talking a ton of money. It's very understandable why guys in the minor leagues would want to do it.

It is a tool for communities like us to use, but the downside is that we have to wait and wait and wait and wait for the results,

Just as the market overshot on the downside in yield in May/June, the risk is that it now overshoots on the upside.

If I don't have my laptop I might as well go home. The downside is they keep upgrading so much. Things go obsolete so quickly.

I don't see any political downside to this.

I don't see a downside in the energy sector from where we are today. Down the road, there will ultimately be a great downside in the energy sector.

Alan Greenspan

It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.