Thanks to a booming economy, America's leaders have a tax windfall to spend on the country's problems.
You would have a nice windfall in this stock if the spread between liquidation value and share price narrowed.
In practice, doing so would have given a windfall to bondholders: nearly double their capital as well as interest payments.
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The popular map and driving directions services of GYM have been a windfall for Navteq, which owns the longitude and latitude data, and deCarta, which crunches the data.
Of course, Branca and McClain have enjoyed a huge financial windfall from this as well.
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For the record, while Hippeau evidently believes an IPO could have resulted in a bigger windfall, he insists he had no specific endgame in mind.
Rocketing house prices may have left one generation with a windfall, but the next needs more of a parental leg-up than ever.
Organisers of the campaign for a windfall tax say they have secured a resolution on the issue to be debated at the TUC conference next week, which they claim is almost certain to be passed.
But such a step is a pure windfall for those who have already bought, and while it surely will increase the national debt it will do absolutely nothing to encourage new sales or new jobs.
Moreover, while it is completely appropriate and necessary to punish certain mortgage servicers for abuses, this does not justify turning their deficiencies into a selective windfall for homeowners who have stopped paying their mortgage while withholding the same benefit from the millions of underwater homeowners who have not.
But to allow teams to abandon areas which have loyally supported them so an owner can make a windfall profit is another matter.
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Aubyn to Evelyn Waugh and Oscar Wilde (hard not to, when his characters have neon names like David Windfall), he is a colder, more savage writer than either.
Unless their sponsors are very careful, firms can easily turn these laws into a tax windfall simply by employing someone they would have hired anyway.
The combination of a massive commodity windfall and extremely loose monetary policy in advanced economies have channeled huge capital flows to these economies.
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But if you already have the mortgage outstanding from when you bought the house, and then get a windfall from your aunt, you can invest the windfall in munis without disturbing your tax deduction.
If policies remain unchanged, then even as the windfall revenues drop out next year, the euro area will still have a small surplus.
Economic hardship and tightening spending constraints have brought the resulting tensions into the open: witness the recent row over whether the government should impose a windfall tax on energy companies and use the money to help poor families meet their rising fuel bills (it didn't).
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