The figures were released in a quarterly financial update that Yasuo Sakuma, portfolio manager at Bayview Asset Management, described as "a somewhat negative surprise".
Shamefully, if an unemployed person was sitting across a desk from me, explaining that they had done a few months at a rival organisation – one that took on new staff all the time – but hadn't been considered worthy of paid employment at the end of it, I'd tend to view this as a somewhat negative detail, rather than a positive one.
PACKER: What effect is Occupy Wall Street having in Washington, if any? FRANK: Unfortunately not nearly as much as I wish it would have and it's becoming somewhat negative.
Attending physician: Although I have somewhat negative views on life-prolonging treatments such as anti-microbials, artificial respirators, and DC, I do carry out treatments for heart failure to some extent, as it is my specialty.
His parents both grew up in Tunisia and imparted something of an outsider's perspective to him; as a result, Hervé's outlook on the archetypal French persona is somewhat negative.
Before Secretary Clinton's visit, public perception of her in China was vague yet, overall, somewhat negative because of critical remarks she made about China as First Lady and in the recent presidential campaign.
"Maybe they are trying to deter drug addicts [from coming to a pharmacy]…in other words they have a somewhat negative attitude to the people who use drugs who are considered as "garbage" of society".
And one of the primary arguments Mr. Clinton made for his vice president was somewhat negative.
Given his somewhat negative image, it was harder for Mr. Florio to make mud stick.
Initial reviews of the series have ranged from somewhat negative to enthusiastically positive.
