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Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.

Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.

a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions.

More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report

How human and economic losses from climate change can be reduced.

It is true that textbook publishers have recently reported losses, largely due to students renting or buying used print textbooks.

These should discourage retailers from wasteful practices that lead to the rejection of food on the basis of cosmetic characteristics, and losses in the home due to excessive purchasing by consumers.

They suffer great losses in stocks, property and other assets.

They prevent job losses in a way.

Farmers are reporting steep losses and a new $20 million tomato-paste factory has halted production due to the shortages.

Love, who is director of Weather and disaster risk Reduction at the World Meteorological Organization, says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or water-related extremes.

Over the last 50 years, economic losses have increased by a factor of 50.

Rich countries' gains are greater than their losses.

Since the poorest are least likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to el nino, reducing their losses needs to be the priority.

"Each year the physical presence rule becomes further removed from economic reality and results in significant revenue losses to the States," he wrote in an opinion joined by four other justices.

And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

Furthermore, these losses make us mature and eventually move us toward future opportunities for growth and happiness.

Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous losses, and it's just not fair.

These gave banks more freedom to use models to value illiquid assets and more flexibility in recognizing losses on long- term assets in their income statements.

To get the system working again, losses must be recognized and dealt with.

Today they argue that market prices overstate losses, because they largely reflect the temporary illiquidity of markets not the likely extent of bad debts.