An article concerning a company's financial difficulty must be handled very carefully, with a sense of balance, because of its potential to inflict great harm upon the subject.
However, the classic conundrum is how to properly balance the long-term potential of the company with near term profitability.
But over the next decade, there will be a global competition to educate the next generation, and China and India have the potential to change the balance of power.
The last run up in oil prices, from 2004 to 2008, happened when the market was much tighter, with rapid growth in Chinese demand and just 1 million barrels per day of spare capacity available to balance out any potential disruptions.
Smaller taxes or charges do not provide the potential for major change in the balance of funding.
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Of course, this potential needs to balance against any unforeseen negative effects.
In this case, Mr. Slee believes the stock still has a lot of upside potential thanks to a strong balance sheet and impressive cash flow.
The Labour candidate has pledged to protect front-line services but said she would also identify potential areas of savings in order to balance the budget.
The chairman of the BMA's general practitioner's committee, Dr Laurence Buckman, said doctors always have to balance the risk of major complications from swine flu with the potential side-effects of anti-virals.
The belief is that with more dollar-cash on everyone's balance sheets, banks will be less fearful of lending money to potential defaulters.
Imagine the potential for trouble monetizing this giant liability side of the balance sheet while selling the asset side to mop up the cash again.
And we committed to working together so that we can find an approach and configuration that is consistent with the security needs of both countries, that maintains the strategic balance, and deals with potential threats that we both share.
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Despite all these potential pitfalls, the science of optimism clearly indicates that, on balance, viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses is a good thing.
Big markdowns have the potential to undermine profits and disrupt the fragile balance that has allowed most of the major players in the U.S. industry to make money, even as profits wither elsewhere in the world.
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In fact, I have a vision that when the G20 meets later in the month in Seoul, that the world needs a new balance between deficit countries and surplus countries, and that balance has to be restored by paying more attention to the development -- of the development potential, including infrastructure development and energy infrastructure agricultural infrastructure in the poorer countries of the world.
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Douglas Cohen, a Morgan Stanley Smith Barney managing director, says the investment vehicles in this kind of situation would still be companies with solid balance sheets, good earnings, and strong growth potential.
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Researchers at the University of Texas are warning that the invasive species from South America has the potential to change the ecological balance in the southeastern United States, largely because the ants can wipe out colonies of what's been widely considered the insect villain of the region, the fire ant.
Employers and trade unions are set to hold a new round of talks on a potential deal later this week, but remain at odds over how to strike a balance between business demands for more flexibility and union stress on job security.
In deciding to participate in peacekeeping arrangements, Washington will have to balance the possible risks inherent in peacekeeping as well as the potential opportunities that peace will create versus the likely risk of increased instability and perhaps even war should the Israel-Syria peace effort collapse.
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Final note: CATCH (the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health), the new (non-profit) Boston-based innovation initiative I recently co-founded with MGH Chief-of-Medicine Dennis Ausiello (who will lead the effort) and several others, seeks precisely this balance between potential and attained health.
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