We feel that TI has the ability to leverage this growth rate.

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The hospitals will also likely renegotiate with health insurers and use the recent government-brokered sale as leverage to extract rich rate increases.

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It also works the same way in reverse: if you have to lower your rate in order to compete, any new corporate or group business you get will have leverage to negotiate a deeper discount and lower rate for themselves.

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With a 99% repayment rate, Kiva lenders gain tremendous leverage.

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If you look at the data, about 49 percent of homeowners have one measure of vulnerability: high debt payments, high levels of variable interest rate debt, a very high leverage, they own very little of ground homes or they own very little outside of their homes.

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These are unleveraged rates, which mean that with 10 times leverage, for example, net of any exchange rate changes, the interest income would be that much higher.

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Push the fast trading and high leverage to hedge funds which fail at a rather regular rate with little or not impact on the wider economy.

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In mature markets, with the turbo-boost of leverage gone and bank balance-sheets still to be slimmed, a growth rate in line with GDP is probably as much as can be hoped for.

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