Because of the blow to their self-esteem, some balding men simply settle when it comes to spouses, Mr. Kobren said.
I signed that petition because of the blow dealt to the New York arts community when the listings were eliminated.
Enron is bankrupt, and there is concern that Andersen will not survive because of the blow to its reputation.
Not surprisingly, partly because of the blow to its pride, the Iranian government rejected the offer of direct, high-level talks as insincere.
The Microsoft stock market miracle clearly ended this year, with the company's stock falling more than 50percentt, largely -- on the surface at least because of the blow dealt to the software publisher by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who ruled in the federal antitrust lawsuit that Microsoft be broken into two separate companies.
He has lambasted the authorities, for example, for indulging the United States after the recent spy-plane collision, and he has questioned the 1989 massacre of student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square, not because of the blow to democracy but because it derailed a drive against an "unstoppable black tide" of corruption.
"Our belief is that because of the blow they suffered in Afghanistan, they left for a calmer place in Central Asia where they could resume operations — either to regroup or to even open up a new front," said Kadyr K. Malikov, director of the Independent Analytical Research Center for Religion, Law and Politics in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital.
Wilkinson, who had once appeared to be extremely doubtful because of the blow in Melbourne to his lower leg - he was sure at the time that he had broken it - showed how quickly young flesh heals by dancing outside Toutai Kefu to score.
"When it happens two years, frustration grows a little bit, [but] it can be because of the blowing exhaust or the double diffuser or something like that.
Since President Obama said Friday that he was opposed to the idea of a boycott because of the blow that would deal to athletes who have been training for years to compete, other Western leaders have echoed that sentiment and said they wouldn't call for their national teams to stay home from the Games in the Russian Black Sea resort.
