The bank actually reduced its holdings of foreign-currency securities by an eighth, "in accordance with the global financial-market situation"—a polite way of saying in order to avoid dud Western assets.
The collective experience of Swan Lake's members then becomes a double-edged sword that provides them with enough sensibility to avoid recording outright duds but deprives them of the edge needed to push the material to its potential.
One way to avoid buying into similar duds is to favor companies that pay dividends.
Unkrich said that he felt pressure to avoid creating "the first dud" for Pixar, since (as of 2010) all of Pixar's films had been critical and commercial successes.
However, since a movie typically needs to make roughly three times its budget to cover marketing costs to be considered worth making, Jobs has to count on an impressive international showing if it's to avoid being labeled a dud.
Banks that had created mortgage-backed securities were unloading them quickly, to avoid being stuck with any duds.
These males are then mated individually to random females from the same population; their offspring are again mated as random pairs within the stud and dud treatments (in a systematic manner to avoid inbreeding) to form grandchildren possessing genomes that trace their ancestry ultimately to either stud (successful) or dud (unsuccessful) males.
Ultimately, care must be taken to avoid legal issues or, worse, a token sale dud.
But this time, Osborne added that Carson needed to leave Iowa before a winter storm strikes later this evening in addition to getting some clean duds..@RealBenCarson leaving Des Moines later tonight to avoid storm.
Battleborn might be the shot in the arm Gearbox needs after Aliens: Colonial Marines shipped as it did, as a dud, and assuming it sells enough copies to avoid doing an Evolve, could spawn a new franchise for its makers, following the wildly successful Borderlands games.
