If Treasury winds up owning mortgage-backed securities, as well as whole mortgages, it will have new leverage over the mortgage servicers and might be able to demand changes to certain loans.

如果财政部自身持有抵押贷款支持证券，将对抵押贷款服务商产生新的影响力，可能足以要求更改部分贷款的条款。

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"In order to reverse the situation and to give themselves a little bit more leverage, they are turning towards new kinds of ideas or at least ideas that they are pushing forward and making more prominent than they were before."

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Americans believe that the victory gives Mr. Bush new leverage throughout the region.

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The mere power to impose surcharges gives them new leverage, potentially making it easier to negotiate lower fees for themselves.

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Companies such as Google, RIM, Microsoft, Amazon and Samsung all depend in some way on Navteq maps, giving Apple new leverage over those other companies.

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