Former HealthCare.gov CEO Kevin Counihan called the decision "outrageous" and suggested that the move could dampen sign-ups by healthy young adults who help keep premiums lower for everyone.
From the moment the first band, Moldy Peaches, from New York, stepped onto the main stage at noon on Friday with its lead singer in a bunny suit, the area up front was an impassable scrum of teenagers, their ardor only slightly dampened by signs forbidding crowd surfing.
No doubt such a sign would dampen the mood.
But it shows no sign of dampening spirits at EnerNOC.
But the Supreme Court's order, as well as the volatile U.S. presidential campaign, have some nations questioning the ability of the United States to adhere to its commitments and could dampen their enthusiasm for signing the agreement, according to the Times.
Tenenbaum stressed that he doesn't promote the tree, takes pains to be a good neighbor by posting signs to dampen noise and refuses requests for the candescent camphor to be put on L.A. "must see" tourist lists.
The earliest sign of dampening of the immune response, in both patients with sepsis as well as patients who survive severe traumatic injury, is a reduction in the expression of the Class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins (HLA-DR) (HLA, human leukocyte antigen) on the surface of macrophages and other antigen-presenting cells.
If an IMF deal is not signed, expectations would dampen, and Turkey's risk premium would go up.
But amidst this spirit-dampening, boneheaded bureaucratic tide is a sign of hope: each time a council tries this, the public are furious.
In a sign that the firing may dampen the row, Republican congressman Darrell Issa, a leading critic of the Obama administration, described on CNN the sacking as "an extremely good first step" and that Obama had set the right tone.
Mr. Mitchell said airlines were bound to have a better first quarter than in 2003, when fears about a war in Iraq, a weak economy and the first warning signs of SARS combined to dampen bookings.
