They have borrowed not only for their own direct purposes to build public works and housing but also for enterprises known as local-government financing vehicles, whose businesses often have a low rate of return.
But for Indian enterprises that can navigate these straits, the country's growth story remains a hot ticket.
But will working actively and purposefully for such enterprises actually help us to survive?
But imposing financial discipline on enterprises looking for an easy way out is the crucial issue, isn't it?
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But mobility re-creates the need for enterprises to re-balance their workloads.
Its early successes in the personal computer business caught the eye of Applecorps lawyers, and in 1981 the two companies signed a secret pact giving Apple Computer the right to use the Apple name for computer products, but reserved for Applecorps the right to use it for music-related enterprises.
It enriches a few bosses but saddles the state enterprises with enormous debts for which, in the end, the government is liable.
Employees needed educating but enterprises were often too scared of opting for the wrong education.
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This effect will ultimately produce greater benefit than, for example, other more immediately profitable but limited enterprises.
But Mr Bo's predilection for state-owned enterprises has a populist streak too.
But, like with any business, enterprises that for whatever reason have a tough time being competitive with industry leaders are not preferred investments.
This has been going on for many decades, but basically what we're looking for is funding for the poor and small and medium enterprises in order to be able to create a better economic situation in El Salvador.
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Old world apple carts are upset, but new winners emerge, including numerous enterprises given up for dead.
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But of course this all comes at a price and enterprises are paying for it with a seemingly endless, insatiable need for efficiency, scale and execution.
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This would, he concedes, raise prices of most things for all Americans and drive some enterprises out of business, but Unz argues that neither of these drawbacks would be terribly severe.
At the time, OpenDNS had built a small but profitable business providing improved DNS for free to individuals and for a fee to enterprises.
Christie Hefner left her role as CEO of Playboy Enterprises in 2009, but she remains an important female business leader for the generations that will enter the business world in the future.
Apparently tired of hearing pitches about the consumer takeover of the enterprise from too many startups and investors, Horowitz explains that enterprises usually have complicated processes for spending money, sometimes ineffective, but almost always arcane.
As for Henry Racamier, he dabbled in a number of other business enterprises, but none came to much.
They are looking for exceptional social enterprises, defined by strong performance not just in financial return but also in the delivery of social impact.
The pattern: I am using my writing to advocate for the leaders of small enterprises or leaders at enterprises with outsized-but-worthy social ambitions who are working hard to overcome the odds.
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But even with the potential for productivity gains from newer technologies, it's tough for many enterprises to stomach the prohibitive costs of a companywide upgrade to the latest software and hardware, especially during the current economic downturn.
Salesforce.com has this vision for enterprises: they are social and not just social-in-name-only but really social.
He thinks it should be more like Nu Skin Enterprises, a rival that pays its sales force not only for their own sales but also for the sales of others they recruit.
Women-owned firms are enjoying growth rates that exceed all but the largest U.S. corporations and these women-owned businesses account for 29% of all enterprises, according to The State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, a report commissioned by American Express OPEN.
But orders from on high can't change the dearth of funding for Y2K remediation at large state-owned enterprises.
But, inevitably, some Nattering Nabobs emerged to argue that all of these Positives were actually Negatives, especially for enterprises.
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When a poll asked French teenagers which company they would most like to work for, the top three responses were not, as in the past, French state enterprises, but Apple, Microsoft and Google.
Todd Morgan, a spokesman for Elvis Presley Enterprises which manages Presley's estate, said the tooth and hair could be genuine but added that the company does not certify purported Elvis memorabilia as genuine.
The squad is now seen for what it is: a group of committed but unexceptional players, albeit enlivened, as with many collective English enterprises (governments, armies) by one dashing individual, the striker Wayne Rooney.
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