To put it simply, as long as investment yields exceed underwriting losses, the way to maximise shareholder value is to underwrite as much risk as possible with as little capital as possible.
Several governments want to put it off as long as they decently can.
It was just as wrong to invest money for your short term goals into the stock market during the bull run of the 1990s as it is to put long term money into CDs today.
Two or three hours were needed to put the costume on, and as long to get it off again.
My brother, however, stroked it for a long time and put it down without bringing it to his lips.
You know the interesting thing is when people sign a declaration of war they understand that it's going to be long and arduous and day after day they have to put an effort into it.
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Or to put it another way, there may be no long-term survival for the eurozone unless Germany is prepared to use its balance sheet to underwrite the whole project.
But it bounced back strong in 2009, surging 45.4% to put it comfortably ahead of the market over the long haul.
And thanks to Congress, we have an initial down payment of some important resources to put into it, but again, this is going to be one of those long, long struggles.
One reason that he had to keep dealing with it, of course, was that he failed to put Chevrolet on a long-term path to a solid new brand identity.
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But one police crew member, speaking anonymously to BBC News, said lives would be "put at risk or possibly lost" because it would take too long to get to incidents.
In an increasingly complex and unstable world, it may be adaptive to put off maturity as long as possible.
As one banker put it me, things usually take as long to unwind as they did to build up.
As much as the NFL would love to finally put the New Orleans Saints Bounty Scandal to bed, Jonathan Vilma will keep it alive as long as he continues to pursue a defamation case against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
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Anything like European self-sufficiency in defence is a long way off, to put it mildly.
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"A lot of people here would not want to put dollars into the border, but as a price to get citizenship, as long as it's not an impediment to citizenship but rather works alongside citizenship, it's something we can all live with, " Schumer said, after talking to the Hispanic House members.
As banks continue to unravel underwater mortgages and homes are put on the market for resale in droves, it is uncertain how long the housing market will have to wait.
That suggests that Twitter is willing to put up with Thunderclap as long as it remains primarily a tool for social activism and philanthropy.
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That girl should have been allowed to pass with respect and dignity, instead due to all the new medical breakthroughs that can prolong life she will be put on display for as long as it is financially advantageous to do so.
Put on an act for long enough and it's hard to remember what's real.
But why did it take this long for that idea to be put in to practice in the training program?
It would put Americans to work quickly and raise productivity in the long term, a Keynesian kick with benefits for years to come.
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"We've had people out who have put a satellite dish up and run a cable to it 500 yards long all to no avail, " he said.
But it would do nothing for (or, as they would surely put it, against) would-be migrants ready to cross the long and largely unpatrolled border without papers.
That ratio has collapsed from 17 early last year to around 9--meaning that money sits in a sock drawer or a bank account for about twice as long as it once did before being put to use.
Now, we have a package, as we work through the differences between the House and the Senate, and we'll put it up on a Web site for all to see over a long period of time, that meets those criteria, meets those goals.
I've been out here a long time now and it is nice to put some icing on the cake.
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This law took a long time to be put into place, and undoing it would jeopardize the marine ecosystem.
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Fly-half Davis put over the simple conversion to make it 7-3 but then missed with a long-distance penalty attempt.
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