The public debt is a liability for the government but it is an asset for the private sector.
By extension, just as every debt is a liability for the borrower, it is an asset for the creditor.
To make matters worse, the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers has become a liability for many solar energy companies.
Meanwhile, Team Kerry did next to nothing to make Cheney, who was already a highly unpopular and divisive figure by that point, a liability for the Republican ticket.
My conclusion is that the company is becoming irrelevant to investors and a liability for manufacturers since they will have to justify discount prices to other customers unless J.
"Karzai's performance in recent years -- his inability to improve governance that is seriously putting the U.S. project at risk of failure -- means he will be a liability for the Republicans to have a warm relationship with, " said Koofi.
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But a student being informed about risks should not be just cause for a complete liability waiver for a university or the NCAA. This type of clause is best designed for adults of relatively equal bargaining power in a business transaction or at least where there is an employer-employee relationship.
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But extending the patent would be a political liability for legislators since the move to a generic drug is likely to save consumers (and insurance companies) hundreds of millions.
Even attending a convention can be seen as something of a political liability for politicians running against the partisan tide.
This means the profit from the trust creates a tax liability for the ETF shareholder, which is taxed as ordinary income.
"A joint liability for others' debts is not acceptable, " she said.
As much as it's important to have every component of a PC stuck together in a laptop, that same monolithic strategy is a major liability for server clusters: if one part breaks or grows obsolete, it can drag down everything else.
The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession, an investigation by the Huffington Post has found.
Legal academics call this substituting a property rule for a liability rule.
For example, Bank of America offers a zero liability guarantee for their consumer debit and credit cards.
Thus a biotech company that has a tax liability can see its tax bill slashed and a business that has no tax liability can receive a nontaxable grant for the same amount.
The customer's ten-year warranty is really about a five-year liability for Hyundai, says Mark Yoon, a Merrill Lynch auto analyst in Seoul.
The customer's ten-year warranty is really about a five-year liability for Hyundai, according to Mark Yoon, a Merrill Lynch auto analyst in Seoul.
Given that in most recent big bank bailouts, non-deposit creditors have been made whole, a huge potential liability for the U.S. government on top of its exposure to deposits insured by the thinly-capitalized Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Another interesting financial problem with ROWE and overly reliant remote firms like Best Buy is the following: Generally they have a massive accrued corporate liability for unused vacation and other PTO benefits that simply never are recorded as a result of ROWE, these end up being large accrued liabilities to the company.
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Put simply, the law ensures that the virtual soapbox is not liable for what the speaker says: merely creating a forum in which users post ads that may violate state law plainly does not lead to liability for a web site operator.
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The global audit firms publicly support IFRS adoption in the US because it creates more work for them and may provide a back door opening for liability caps.
There remains, moreover, a potential for product liability in pediatric vaccines and the technical difficulties in growing living organisms.
That includes criminal and civil penalties as well as sums paid to settle potential liability for a fine.
The owners of Merseyside factory have admitted liability for a fire which burned for eight days in 2011.
The FDIC has brought one case alleging professional liability for a failed bank.
Regarding Avandia, in July 2010 the company took a provision for product liability cases relating to the product that had been settled or received at that time.
She points to Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ), which has battled liability for a pair of withdrawn diet drugs for nine years.
The Justice Department is pressing state attorneys general to release the banks from liability for a host of alleged violations in exchange for a far-reaching settlement, people familiar with internal discussions said.
For starters, while many car engines currently can run on a blend of 10-percent ethanol and 90-percent petroleum gas, bumping that cocktail to 15-percent ethanol, or E15, will result in a warranty and liability migraine for car owners whose older models are unable to digest the blend.
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