Sentence examples for Wasting assets from inspiring English sources
Actually, legalisation would move drugs away from the out-of- control cartels and gangs who traffic in them now and into a properly regulated system.Norm Stamper Seattle chief of police, 1994-2000 SIRttlePensions* SIR - It is heartening to see that you understand the perverse incentives and information asymmetries that characterise fund management ("Wasting assets", June 20th).
Managers limit the risk they face by throwing all the resources they can muster at an opportunity from the outset, even if it means wasting assets.
Tax position One major attraction of classic car investment is that profits don't attract capital gains tax as they are classed as "wasting assets", with a predicted useful life under 50 years.
For several years, Hershey School alumni have argued that the board was rife with conflicts of interest, was wasting assets with its extensive construction of a centralized campus to replace the farm homes spread through the countryside, and had wrongly changed its admissions policies to exclude the neediest children in favor of less needy children with higher levels of academic achievement.
Why did they simply sit with wasting assets?
Beware that LEAPS are options, which means that they are wasting assets.
Wasting Asset (Securities) An asset that has a limited life and thus, decreases in value (depreciates) over time.
DANIEL A. HEBERT Anaheim, California Canal can-do SIR: To call the Panama Canal a "Wasting asset" (Apr. 6, p. 68) is misleading.
Wasting Asset (Fixed) Refers to a fixed asset, other than land, that has a limited useful life and is therefore subject to depreciation.
The authors of Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets propose that a carbon budget of 900 gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere from now to mid-century would give an 80 percent chance of 2-degree warming.
