Jared Fogle, Subway's lead pitchman for 15 years, may be on his way to prison, and the restaurant chain is losing a cornerstone of its enormously successful brand story.
The Boston Celtics lost Ray Allen, a cornerstone of their two recent finals teams, and face the usual concerns over the age and stamina of Paul Pierce (35 on opening night) and Kevin Garnett (36).
Emboldened, and spurred by the sense that it also has the moral high ground, Greece's conservative government has now made winning back lost masterpieces a cornerstone of its cultural policy.
You couldn't blame the Washington Nationals for feeling a bit snakebitten, losing two cornerstones to thumb injuries over the previous two weeks.
Fiorina was hired to restore sparkle and edge to a staid institution that had lost both, and the cornerstone of her effort was the Compaq merger, designed to shake up H.P.'s culture and make the company a bigger player in the personal-computer market.
Meanwhile, Cornerstone has lost a fifth of its value since Thursday amid concerns that global economic volatility and increased competition will generate weaker-than-expected sales this year at business technology companies.
The MPs also warned that the government was missing the opportunity to use existing North Sea oil and gas infrastructure, much of which may be lost as those fields are depleted, as a cornerstone of a new CCS industry.
The nation has no idea yet what a great leader and cornerstone of our democracy we have lost this week.
The cornerstone of therapy is replacement of lost fluid.
Cantor Fitzgerald, a cornerstone of the Treasury market that has lost its headquarters and many of its workers, managed to get its operations running.
