Thanks to the sheer size of the firm's debts, and to the depressed market in which it operates, analysts say that it needs to have its balance sheet scrubbed cleaner if it is to prosper.

ECONOMIST: Japanese banking

As America's air has grown cleaner, the balance of benefits over costs for each new tightening of the regulations has become more debatable.

ECONOMIST: The defence of nature 2

We increased the loan guarantees in the federal -- in our current federal budget deficit to build more of these facilities to strike that balance and also to create -- begin to create a market for cleaner energy sources through comprehensive energy legislation.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

To redress the balance, South-East Asia needs to be seen to be very much cleaner.

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