And for us to have leverage with the Palestinians, to have leverage with the Arab States and with the international community, the basis for negotiations has to hold out the prospect of success.
But, a joint venture provides the foreign partner with the ability to leverage the management, manufacturing and marketing infrastructure of its Chinese partner, an advantage that should not be overlooked.
The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul says Yongbyon has provided the North with successful leverage in the past.
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Nevertheless, Murdoch has wound up with the most leverage in this game.
The old-school hustlers were left with no leverage at the negotiating table with the owners of capital, while at the same time being at their mercy, instead of at the mercy of Wild West nature.
The City has identified 15 innovation zones in key commercial and industrial corridors, and will work with the private sector to leverage the existing infrastructure and assets to ensure low-cost broadband is available in these zones with the ultimate goal of extension to all businesses in the City.
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The company will relabel and sell Virident PCIe solid state storage devices and is using its investment and board seat with the company to leverage work to develop the next generation of PCIe and SOP storage solutions including hardware as well as software components.
The problem with leverage is that it requires investment in highly liquid instruments so the holder can quickly de-leverage.
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By contrast to the military sector, the West enjoys vastly greater leverage with the Chinese in terms of joint commercial interests.
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Ismail says that 80% of their curriculum is focused on the future, not the past with a mandate to teach the next generation how to leverage technology to solve problems in the world with technology we have today.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, also disagreed with giving up the leverage of the debt ceiling without any guaranteed spending cuts in return.
Deal activity is perking, but so far financial constructs are relatively conservative compared with the eighties when leverage of 8 to 1 was commonplace.
They take the ideas of a few and leverage them with the efforts and resources of many.
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Not only will consumers pay more for foreign and domestically grown tomatoes at the grocery store and for salads and hamburgers at restaurants, but the new price-floor terms provide a strong indication that the specter of uncertainty associated with antidumping administration provides the necessary leverage to induce foreign producers into pricing schemes indistinguishable from collusion and price-fixing.
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Even with historically low leverage the sector is able to generate fairly predictable 14-18% yields.
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But armed with the potential for vast leverage, they undercut traditional providers of longer-term funding such as savings banks and insurers.
From 2000-2009, pay was well-aligned with performance, and the leverage, or risk-orientation, of the program was balanced on both the upside and downside.
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For one, the U.S. housing bubble imploded after bulge bracket banks could no longer bare the losses associated with mortgage backed securities, and the ultra leverage used to buy sub prime real estate loans.
One big reason for this is that the biggest PBMs have the best negotiating leverage with drug companies and retailers so they are best positioned to offer customers the best prices.
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At the same time, other Chinese have self-organized online to form purchasing groups with enough leverage to force down the price of, say, the new Toyota Yaris they each want to buy.
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Steven Tananbaum of Goldentree Asset Management, an investment firm specialising in junk, argues that sometimes the greater resilience of shareholders compared with bondholders is soundly rooted because the operating leverage is so large (for instance, in airlines).
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"We at the World Bank Group are working with our development partners to identify and leverage the funds needed to invest in infrastructure, and these conversations are continuing, " he said.
Nothing wrong with that, except that the leverage ratio explicitly excludes lending the banks undertake domestically from calculations of capital.
And with an ability to leverage the power of a supercomputer at will, the working set requirement is now an anachronism and critical decision timelines can now be more easily met.
Chris Petersen, president of Iowa's farmers' union, says that years of strong earnings have given them reasonably strong balance-sheets, with only half the amount of leverage they carried into the last downturn.
In mature markets, with the turbo-boost of leverage gone and bank balance-sheets still to be slimmed, a growth rate in line with GDP is probably as much as can be hoped for.
The solution, the study says, is to better leverage the assets at hand with even more innovation at all points.
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