Schools and universities lose potential scholars.
The economics term is "opportunity cost": When you choose one alternative, you might get the gains from choosing that alternative, but you lose the potential gains you might have had from the choosing another alternative.
To rub more salt in his wounds, ADM shares traded back up to $25 a share the next week, so he effectively lost $5 in potential gains.
Tell the assailant "don't do this to yourself" implying that the assailant has more to lose than you, or the potential gain.
A total of six cue types (Win $0.00, Win $0.50, Win $5.00, Lose $0.00, Lose $0.50, and Lose $5.00) explicitly stated whether each trial was a potential gain or loss trial, as well as the amount of money at stake.
In deciding whether to make each pump, the participant must balance the potential gain of accruing more money against the potential risk of losing all money accrued for that balloon [ 71].
According to the scientists, however, the act of playing the game leads people to "encode" the potential gain as an actual gain, which means they start worrying about losing it.
His decision to exchange many stock options for far fewer shares of restricted stock, swapping potential upside for certainty, resulted in his losing more than $6 billion in potential gains.
Crews has said so. "If much of the twentieth century has indeed belonged to Freud," he told Todd Dufresne, in 1998, "then we lost about seventy years worth of potential gains in knowledge while befuddling ourselves with an essentially medieval conception of the 'possessed' mind".
To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is today". From a child's birth until age three, we have only a thousand days to help build their brains and chart the course for a lifetime of learning, making every day that passes a potential opportunity lost or gained.
Union members were beginning to see any potential gains wiped out by lost wages.
