The
negative consequences of an
action, whether it be a
statement, a
change (say, in the
economy), a
love affair, or even or the
detonation of a nuclear weapon.
The Braves are believed to have shopped Rocker in the winter of 1999-2000 to teams that included Cleveland Indians and Montreal but didn't find any takers during the fallout after his public tirade. --Cox News Service, June 23, 2001
Shares of specialty apparel retailers suffered a sector-wide fallout on Friday as a raft of analyst downgrades and company warnings fueled concern that the U.S. economic slowdown will dent second-quarter profits and hit June same-store sales. --Reuters, June 22, 2001