For me, this global recession is not to be measured just in statistics, or in graphs or in figures on a balance sheet.

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The next two years of GERS figures will look good for the Scottish balance sheet for that reason.

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The company has been incredibly successful at keeping its banks and bondholders at bay while it figures out a way to restructure its balance sheet.

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One reason: The actual figures do not appear in black and white on any balance sheet.

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Tudor, Pickering figures that Plains is worth owning, as it has the balance sheet to fund its share of development on this and other recent finds (such as Davy Jones).

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