With the new stadium there is ample opportunity to leverage up Arsenal's balance sheet.
In the circumstances of 1974 with the stock market depressed, it made sense to leverage up.
The whole idea of the EFSF was that it would be possible to leverage up the guarantees by using the AAA ratings to back he fund.
Meantime, quasi-government agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, beloved by politicians trying to score more and more home loans for lower income Americans, were allowed to leverage up to 90-to-1.
Activist shareholders want Home Depot to leverage up the balance sheet far more and buy back shares, or sell the real estate or spin off the HD Supply wholesale business.
Activist shareholders want Home Depot to leverage up the balance sheet far more and buy back shares, or sell the real estate or spin off the hd Supply wholesale business (see table).
The suspicion is that the buyout firm that controlled the smokestack company, Saratoga Partners, was looking to leverage it up and extract a tasty dividend.
Although smaller deals involve much less debt than the bigger ones, the amount of leverage is creeping up.
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Use what you hear as leverage to pick up the phone and call.
Borrowed money, or leverage, made up 49% of buyouts last year, down from 57% in 2010, according to data-provider PitchBook.
Without leverage to juice up returns, the gap between the industry's best and worst performers will also become more apparent.
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Banks are busy reducing leverage and shoring up their capital, and the effects of both are cascading through the financial markets.
We're sitting on lots of cash and little debt and can use financial leverage to fatten up things we think are attractive.
He says, for example, that the volume of subprime loans was too small to have caused Armageddon, but he skates over the huge amount of leverage that built up.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, also disagreed with giving up the leverage of the debt ceiling without any guaranteed spending cuts in return.
Yammer is also a pure-play social platform built from ground up to leverage the converging trends of social, mobile, cloud, and real-time communication.
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Al Ississ described the effort to leverage the goodwill built up by the ceasefire and meeting conditions for the IMF loan as a "giant miscalculation" by the Islamist leader.
Some will say the banks are partly to blame for the sluggishness of the economic recovery, having pumped up the leverage in the boom years and now - in this era of so-called de-risking and deleveraging - starving businesses with good growth prospects of the credit they so badly need.
There are two possible ways Apple could open up the Apple TV platform to third-party app developers: It could allow devs to create dedicated TV apps, or it could more heavily leverage (and open up) the AirPlay feature already baked into Apple TV to port existing iPad apps to the big screen.
To find out which ones to sell where, Vega began to leverage consumer data it picked up in promotional campaigns.
The earlier they define their strengths and weaknesses, the sooner they can begin to leverage their attributes and shore up their shortcomings.
In fact it continues on a lower trajectory as the world continues to de-leverage from years of built-up excess debt.
The goal is to ensure everything your business does is set up to promote and leverage the enduring asset you possess.
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American commercial banks were subject to a leverage ratio in the run-up to the financial crisis: they still ran into trouble.
Nevertheless, Murdoch has wound up with the most leverage in this game.
These forms of leverage provide some happiness or success up to a point, but taken to extremes, in fact, undermine the pursuit of happiness.
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Investors were sickened to learn of the risky bets and 30-1 leverage that Lehman used to pump up profits to pay handsome bonuses to its executives.
In investor jargon, it therefore has huge operating leverage: the initial start-up costs for hardware and software were high, but since break-even each new client's revenues have been almost pure profit.
He has a tradition of using some of his properties, his critics and even some of his former employees, say, to cozy up to power to leverage his assets as media outlets.
However, we expect that as the industry revives and demand picks up, TI could leverage this additional capacity and consequently increase its factory utilization rates which, in turn, will improve the gross margins.
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