Of course, the balance sheet wasn't and isn't the prettiest, but it's also not the ugliest.

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It has rained overnight and parts of the course are just a sheet of ice this morning.

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At the end of the course, on her evaluation sheet, Hilda made a number of points about how it could have been better organized.

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Yet that is just what is happening in Greenland, whose relatively warm and wet sheet is on course to melt completely, bringing the prospect of a sea-level rise of perhaps seven metres.

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Of course, sprucing up the balance sheet in the short term only takes you so far.

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Without local authority funding, he paid his own way during the two-year course, taking a job as a sheet metal worker for a time.

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It was great that he got a clean sheet today and that, of course, was a platform for us to get a victory.

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Perhaps the biggest issues we see for HOG is the balance sheet deterioration that has occurred over the course of a few years.

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That is a side benefit, of course, rather than a reason to expand its balance sheet.

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This may of course change in the future but then the volatility of the whole balance sheet would be greatly increased.

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Or is the balance sheet recession simply continuing apace until the painful process of deleveraging runs its course?

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