After closing at $24.625, Tokos announced that negative publicity about one of its drugs would hurt fourth-quarter results.

Higher taxes would also hurt operating results in the fourth quarter, he added.

It said that continued softening in retail sales would hurt results for its third quarter.

Interest rates rose and prices of many types of bonds fell, hurting results.

Both companies say start-up costs hurt second-quarter results.

But he acknowledged that the quota problems had hurt results and led some salesmen to leave.

But it has a plant in Mexico, and the peso's devaluation hurt consolidated results.

While the first half should be strong, there is concern the economy will weaken in the second half, leading fares back down and hurting results.

The weak advertising market did hurt results from the company's publishing operation, which is dominated by magazines.

Now, with domestic companies worried that rising travel costs are hurting quarterly results, the jokes don't seem quite so far-fetched.