As the banking industry buzzes about how to get around President Obama's compensation restrictions for firms leaning on taxpayer support, Britain's decision to take an active ownership role in R.B.S., which recently accepted a £20 billion ($29 billion) capital injection, leaves the bank with little room to focus on anything but clawing its way back to profitability.
But corruption in Kentucky consists of mining firms leaning on local officials to go easy on environmental regulations, or school boards appointing their members' relatives to sinecures.
The Washington Post Co. secured their future by buying Kaplan Learning centers, morphing the company into an "information" firm and leaning on the new entity, rather than their news operations, to drive growth.
"It shouldn't make any difference what a firm's political leanings are, but that's not what life is like in America," he said.
Down the line the candidates went, with six saying they leaned or were committed to denying Mr. Hatch another term, a few leaning or firm toward keeping him, and the rest professing indecision or a willingness to be swayed by the precinct's others members.
The subjective reports showed that technical aspects (inference fields) induced irritations and also a normally functioning belt was in some situations bothersome, e.g. when riding a race bike or leaning against a firm back.
But now I am a firm advocate of nurturing, building and leaning on our support networks.
He shared his views with his readers through his column, "Thinking and Living", and, after initial Republican leanings, was a firm supporter of the New Deal.
And given the normal success rate of VCs, that means the firm is really leaning on a few exits to earn more than $1 billion.
Though I'm a firm believer in a more forward-leaning foreign policy (my instincts are more McCain than Paul), this is a good and healthy debate to have.
