Assuming short-sellers are correct about a company's outlook, they must at some point buy back the share borrowed.

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Buying back shares with borrowed money boosts earnings per share, so profit growth can continue to look healthy.

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Fusion is the first of ten new Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models that will share a modified chassis borrowed from Mazda, Ford's Japanese affiliate.

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In the 1950s, when Freddy succeeded his father on the Heineken board, he borrowed enough money to buy a controlling share.

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Last year revelations emerged that McClendon had borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from private equity groups and other investors to finance his share of drilling costs under the drilling program.

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Paramount has added back the dime it borrowed from Bemis' bottom line in 1997 and will probably generate more than 10 cents a share in profits in 2000, says Lehman Brothers analyst Joel Tiss.

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