The return on equity is limited because the government regulates them tightly, they can only show so much profit.
One minute you think you've swaddled them tightly, and the next minute they don't have one part of the blanket left on them.
Polls show four of them tightly bunched together with John McCain using the bounce he got in New Hampshire and South Carolina to wipe out what was once a solid Giuliani lead in the state.
Because public companies sell shares to the unsophisticated, policymakers are right to regulate them more tightly than other forms of corporate organisation.
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"Rather than manage mainframe and Unix separately, this allows you to manage them more tightly and closely as if they were one, " says Adkins.
For a former officer to be a suspected cop killer is beyond imagination for many law enforcement officers, whose culture bonds them so tightly that many can spot another officer out of uniform just by their demeanor and a nod of the head.
PLEASANTON, Calif. (AP) Two sisters facing charges that they endangered the lives of infants at their Northern California daycare center by binding them too tightly in swaddling blankets didn't intend to hurt the babies and contend they didn't commit child abuse, their attorney said.
Tying them even more tightly into the regulatory system is likely only to exacerbate these contradictions by raising barriers to new entrants and making the rating agencies appear even less fallible.
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Alert to this risk, Facebook has been rolling out new features such as Timeline, which encourages users to load their life histories onto the social network, to bind them in more tightly.
This film holds the atoms together too tightly for them to react with other molecules.
But they, too, enjoyed seigniorage income that let them profit from a tightly controlled interest rate and high economic growth environment.
Ministers say that the tests (84% of them on rodents) are tightly regulated.
Use them straightaway, or let them cool and then store, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to a week or longer.
He'll swaddle the babies tightly, walk with them if it seems to settle them down or just let them feel a loving touch.
It also opened up more investment options for QFIIs, by allowing them to participate in China's tightly-controlled interbank bond market.
Brin and Page have created a corporate organism that tackles most big projects in small, tightly focused teams, setting them up in an instant and breaking them down weeks later without remorse.
You can put them into landfill sites but they're so tightly compacted, even if they're degradable, they don't break down.
"I think during those times the relationships they have with folks that are here become even more important to them, and they seem to grip on more tightly, " Kirkpatrick said.
Proponents of vertical integration say it enables them to make the best possible devices because they can tightly integrate and customize the various parts of their products.
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One aspect of all this is that more and more gay people today, not feeling marginalized and embattled as a group in the way that their counterparts of a generation ago did, feel less and less of a need to cling tightly to the label that once would have bound them together.
However, it is hard for Myanmar's citizens to convert them into foreign currency and, since last year, imports have been tightly licensed.
Unlike the familiar three of length, breadth and height, these extra dimensions are curled up so tightly that they elude detection (though scientists are trying to prise them open in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva).
In order to maximize the performance of the products and services and have any hope of them getting adopted, organizations need to integrate vertically and create interdependent architectures that tightly weave different components together to optimize performance, in terms of functionality and reliability.
The need for the parts of an engine to fit together tightly enough to stop hot gases seeping where they should not, and yet not so tightly that they rub on each other in a way that wears them out, is a constant bane of engine designers.
She said the levels of additives in all foods were tightly regulated so that the levels were kept very low, but to avoid them people should prepare their meals from fresh ingredients.
Stores have been tightly monitoring their popular items and taking care to manage that customers may easily find them.
In this compound, the tightly bound orbitals act like wells into which free electrons can fall, allowing the material to capture them more easily.
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