To slow cash outlays further, Kassalow is bartering with established brands, including ClearVision and FGX International.

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They could not separate out cash outlays from depreciation expense at the job level.

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Many companies try to slow down their cash outlays.

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The former requires you to take on a large mortgage with fixed obligations spanning 15 years or more, pay property taxes and other recurring cash outlays (such as homeowners insurance) for the life of the home, and deal with any maintenance expenses that arise.

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We have come up with a rough measure, along the lines of the "cash flow" used by analysts to evaluate companies with heavy plant-and-equipment outlays--cash flow here referring to the sum of earnings and depreciation.

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Now Renault aims to chop its cost of capital outlays by 50%, freeing up cash that can be pumped into new models.

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He is willing to pay for intangibles, like a consumer brand name or a newspaper monopoly, provided those assets throw off "owner's profits"--cash that can be extracted from a business after necessary capital outlays are paid for.

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The deal may signal the start of a smart-grid buying spree for cash-equipped conglomerates like Toshiba eager to tap the vast capital outlays expected from electric utilities over the next decade.

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