The issue is whether pockets of over-leverage cause contagion when markets sell off.
Coming from Singapore to California during the height of the financial crisis, we uncovered more and more horror stories over casual conversations about debt and over-leverage, fueled by relentless, uninformed optimism.
But while big hospitals are moving fast to digitize their internal operations, they have less leverage over self-employed doctors like Krupen.
As president, Mr Kirchner has largesse of his own, including discretionary spending which brings leverage over cash-strapped provincial governors and their representatives in the Senate.
Fidel Castro has recently decided to exploit the high value which Russia places on maintaining this massive GRU facility on his island -- one of the few leverage points he still has over his post-Cold War benefactors in the Kremlin.
Western security interests will not benefit from a resuscitation of this strategic sector of the Soviet economy, with the attendant increase in Moscow's political leverage over its energy-importing neighbors and a vital revenue stream for untied, disposable hard-currency income.
Once China was accepted into the World Trade Organization in 2001, the West lost the little leverage it had over Sino-Iranian ties.
There is now speculation as to whether a post Dodd-Frank regulatory environment will include significantly greater purview over the practices of smaller firms, with closer attention to their leverage ratios (31-1 at MF Global) and more aggressive disclosure standards.
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But it also means that Facebook has leverage over Foursquare, Gowalla and other location-based companies.
Single-entity recognition might give credit-card networks and chain restaurants additional leverage over their employees and customers.
Mr. Obama used his last bit of leverage to prevail over Republicans in the fiscal-cliff budget negotiations late last year.
Second, online retailers can count on still-expanding profit margins as they leverage higher revenue over their fixed costs.
Some TV executives have accused Dish of releasing the new ad-skipping service to gain more leverage in negotiations over those fees, a strategy Mr. Ergen implicitly acknowledged.
His campaign, as you know, made a concerted effort to win over black voters, and now he has them as the really - his leverage point in this contest.
Because forwards settle in over two days, they require more credit from traders, as they are high-leverage activities.
They told Karnal Singh to start over because he pressed his hands against his ears during the car-pulling, gaining illegal leverage.
He adds that if the company can maintain leverage in the 2x-3x range, share count could shrink by over 25% by 2015, and by over half by 2020.
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The more potential trouble-makers the Syrians have under their thumbs, the greater will be their leverage over Israel.
It isn't even just a matter of losing our leverage over large strategic swaths of the globe: Russia in Ukraine will mean a pressure-lock on the Black Sea, on Georgia, Azerbaija and Turkey, which will ultimately furnish Moscow with a choke-hold on fuel supplies to Europe and a geostrategic veto on our Iran policy.
Those customers tend to have a very specific goal and a strong idea of what they want to do with those orders, be it entering or exiting the underlying market as investors, protecting their equity investments, gaining incremental income over and above simply holding a stock or exchange-traded fund position, or seeking to gain additional leverage.
With Germany divided and the cold war still being waged, France, both as a nuclear-armed ally and as one of the four powers occupying Germany, had a special leverage over the government in Bonn.
This is a by-product of increasing competition in the overall smartphone industry, which could cause Apple to lose leverage over its tightly controlled supply ecosystem thereby endangering its famed high margins.
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Clinton recognized the untapped potential in some Carter-era legislation, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which would give his administration leverage over financial institutions to increase loans to members of key voting blocs despite their relatively poor credit ratings.
What is striking is that there has been modest reductions in the indebtedness of British households and non-financial companies over the past three years, to 98% and 109% of GDP respectively - which are still high levels of leverage or high debt ratios by historic standards.
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