And unless the Fed wants to ruin the value of the dollar, it will need to keep its promise to get out of the bond-buying business, too, when its second round of quantitative easing ends in June.
Nintendo's purpose with this press conference was to elaborate on its decision to ship smartphone games and describe the form they would take (they won't just port existing games to mobile platforms, Iwata says, since that would "ruin the value of Nintendo's IP").
Nintendo's Chief Executive Satoru Iwata has already said in a press conference announcing the partnership that the company would not be porting over versions of existing games, saying it would "ruin the value of Nintendo's IP," promising instead something to be built from scratch specifically for mobile, a first for the iconic company who has long shied away from entering the mobile game.
The challenge is how we get there without ruining the value added by academic publishers.
In fact, at age 4 Gilbert scrawled her name in the book, ruining its value to collectors.
But home owners fear the plant will generate smoke and dust from its 110-foot smokestack and noise from its 12 combustion turbines, and thus ruin property values.
The number of workers clamoring for day jobs in major "shape up" sites in Farmingville, Farmingdale and Freeport will just increase, they say, and the immigrants' overcrowded living conditions will continue to vex neighbors and ruin property values.
But two other Afghan officials, when asked why they were willing to discuss such a potentially provocative plot, said Mr. Mehsud's detention by the United States had already been exposed — it was first reported by The Washington Post — ruining his value as an intelligence asset and sinking their plan.
It's a common joke that once a photograph is pirated, lost, or ruined, its value (read its value in the courtroom) suddenly skyrockets.
No one wants to ruin the entertainment value of a night out at the auctions, but contemporary art has enough credibility problems without unnecessary murkiness.
