First, the traders behind the losses added huge amounts of new derivatives positions in a very short period, which the board might have asked about.
Even so, in recent years public companies have added huge amounts of leverage to their balance sheets, often by buying back their shares or taking on debt for acquisitions.
Lax lending standards encouraged reckless borrowing except in Texas, where strict rules on predatory lending imposed after an earlier bust kept mortgages modest.In contrast to California, builder-friendly cities like Dallas and Houston added huge amounts of new housing, allowing them to accommodate crowds of new residents without causing much upward pressure on prices.
Bank of America's pitch included salaries that far exceeded Feinberg's stricture that cash be limited in most cases to about $500,000, and added huge amounts of salarized stock on top of that, so that the bank's total compensation proposals were typically more than $10 million and ran to as much as $21 million.
"This is an important signing for Northants Cricket's t20 campaign, where Cameron will be able to add huge amounts of firepower to our middle order batting," added Capel.
Now, however, it's adding a huge amount of locations from around the world in one launch, even though quite a few of them are probably a first for the Street View team.
"Asthmapolis is in a unique position in healthcare IT," explains Social+Capital General Partner Ted Maidenberg, "where its technology can easily integrate with existing behaviors (like using your inhaler), while adding a huge amount of data (time, location, activity) that provides a much smarter package compared to your over-the-counter inhaler".
The "astounding" loss of sea ice this year is adding a huge amount of heat to the Arctic Ocean and the atmosphere, said Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
People feel they got a good deal," Mailk said, adding: "I have huge amounts of empathy".
