It does not help that insurers have lost their appetite for insuring private equity, after some well-publicised write-downs on banks' private-equity portfolios.

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Banks have spent the past year shoring up their balance sheets but, after some big losses, investors have lost their appetite for more share issues.

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David Olson of the research firm Wholesale Access says Wall Street investors have lost their appetite for the loans and want companies like New Century to buy them back.

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The problem may not be that we are innovating less well than we used to, or have lost our appetite for imaging our surroundings and selves in a new way.

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Mr. Checketts was forced to put the Blues up for sale last year when his lead investor, TowerBrook Capital Partners, lost its appetite for funding the millions of dollars in annual operating losses.

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Mirabela Nickel, a firm listed in Australia, is developing a big nickel project in Brazil and, bankers say, is having to seek funds in a market that has lost any appetite for risk.

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The PMBD, a wily grouping of regional barons that is the PT's main partner, will probably try to take advantage of her inexperience to satisfy its appetite for pork and spendthrift ministries, even though it lost seats in the election.

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Pompey never matched Wigan for appetite, epitomised by Aghahowa and Folan who worked tirelessly to chase down lost causes and close down defenders.

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No one would have had the appetite to compete and therefore the passion and excitement of the whole competition would have been lost.

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