The process started with 30 tonnes of raw materials and 500 tonnes of solvent and usually requires a dozen separate chemical steps and takes more than two years.
Moreover, with the right choice of solvent, the products of the reaction simply float to the top, where they can be skimmed off, rather than having to be distilled out as conventional chemistry would require.
Will Germany's taxpayers and those of other solvent countries be willing to fund an even larger bailout of Spanish banks to save impecunious Spaniards?
Perhaps, he supposed, he had inhaled the fumes of the solvent he was using.
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As the critics allege, cost-benefit analysis works like a kind of universal solvent.
It has been reported that over 850, 000 pounds of the solvent was used at the fromer medical manufacturing facility between 1966-86.
The frame or focus on improving the effectiveness of the solvent was so old that no one thought to take a look at other potential solutions to the problem.
If they were used to bail out commercial banks directly, they could break the pernicious circle in which unstable banks use the debt of barely solvent governments to shore themselves up.
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These states are just beginning to face the internal consequences: serious inflation, major declines in their workers' standard of living, destruction of people's savings, bankruptcies of otherwise-solvent businesses and inflammation of political and ethnic tensions.
Staff were taken ill after breathing in fumes from a drum containing 20 litres of ink and solvent.
Hale, in a 29-page ruling issued late yesterday, said it would undermine U.S. policy to allow Vitro, which is in reorganization proceedings in Mexico, to deprive foreign creditors of guarantees from solvent subsidiaries that back its bonds.
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Banks should be graded on how well they keep lines of credit open to solvent borrowers, as well as on their willingness to boost lines of credit to small and medium-size businesses that have sound plans for expansion.
Pick the right combination of ions to make your solvent and it is possible to dissolve coal, a wide range of plastics, many metals and even some rocks.
Understanding your strengths and, perhaps more important, identifying your limits will help keep you out of the ditches and solvent over the long-term.
Another approach has been to borrow from the American model, parcelling out the good bits of failing banks to solvent rivals and keeping the rest.
While initially sold as a deficit reducer, CLASS will actually require tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer support within its first couple of decades to stay solvent.
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Many of the banks may still be from financially stronger countries like Germany and the Netherlands, suggesting that the split between the more solvent north of Europe and its weaker south remains.
It would not address the crucial issue of which governments are solvent and which are not. (Though it would provide a forum for doing that.) Nor would it get the ECB out of the business of rescuing governments - though at least it would now be doing so at one step removed.
The back-and-forth events of Borders trying to stay solvent have been front page news for months.
So there is no way of knowing whether they are solvent, i.e.
The system costs less to install and maintain than the existing furnaces, it virtually eliminates carbon dioxide emissions and it enables the use of higher-quality, solvent-based paints.
This could lead to, among other things, an expansion of the gainful employment rule, which sanctions schools that prepare very few of their students to be solvent.
The overleveraged ones will cut back spending as they try to stay out of bankruptcy, and even solvent consumers will react to their shrinking home prices by saving more, Rosenberg says.
Indeed, MLB itself has said that the Dodgers are solvent by hundreds of millions of dollars and according to the Dodgers filing, every case in which the courts have ruled in favor of what MLB contends involved insolvent estates.
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According to a report from the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees, the Social Security system is expected to be solvent until about 2037 -- largely because of the surplus in the Trust Fund -- even though the payroll taxes flowing in stop being enough to cover the expenses flowing out in 2017.
Although General Motors is based in Detroit, and Chrysler recently opened an office there, the automobile industry is not going to provide the vast numbers of jobs the city needs to become solvent.
One proposed solution, using a solvent, would consume 29% of the plant's power and raise electricity prices 65%.
Bagehot advised the Bank of England to lend freely to illiquid but solvent banks against good collateral, at a penal rate.
What happens when the debt of a bankrupt S corp, owned by solvent taxpayers who didn't personally guarantee the debt, is written off by a bank?
So Owens-Illinois , which quit making asbestos insulation in 1958 but still faces thousands of lawsuits, has asked the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in Cleveland to halt trials against solvent companies, including Owens-Illinois, until plaintiffs have resolved their claims against the trusts.
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