We'll negotiate firmly, patiently and respectfully, and aim to achieve the return of the powers over the lifetime of a Parliament.
For example, in the government's summary, Mr. Fastow is described as saying that Merrill invested in the barge deal only because of "the extraordinarily high level of assurance" he provided that the firm would be taken out of the deal in six months, and achieve the return on its $7 million investment that it wanted.
During resuscitation, Emergency Medical Service rescuers must focus completely on their task of restarting the heart to achieve the return of spontaneous circulation in a patient in cardiac arrest.
No distinction in recruitment was made for the place (in-hospital or out of hospital) or cause (cardiac or non-cardiac) of CA. The Lund University CA system (LUCAS) was used as a bridge for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in patients not achieving the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) with conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
"It will have to generate the most cash flow of any property to achieve the returns that people are looking for," said John Maxwell, an analyst at BNP Paribas.
So to achieve the returns that investors expected, the professor's fund had to increase leverage to about nine times from about two times.
In May 2001, the lawsuit noted, Barron's published an article that discussed the opinion among many hedge fund professionals and options strategists that Madoff could not achieve the returns he reported using the strategy he described.
"While investors seem to be learning hard lessons from the past 15 years, the original Q.A.I.B. findings still hold true: Mutual fund investors do not achieve the returns cited by fund firms due to their irrational behavior," Lou Harvey, president of Dalbar, said.
As Mr Kravis put it in his recent speech, "Everything we have accomplished in driving corporate excellence makes it harder for us to achieve the returns that our investors expect from us".A crucial factor will be whether private-equity firms can genuinely improve the companies they buy.
