For one thing, the book generates a decent degree of suspense over just how Michael will manage to blow his cover.
It's not expensive on earnings; it generates a decent amount of cash flow.
Reductions in tax rates for the wealthiest North Carolinians, as well as possible elimination of the state estate tax (which affects a tiny sliver of the wealthiest families in the state but generates a decent amount of revenue), translates into additional deficits of a billion dollars by 2018.
That way, it can free up capital and use it elsewhere, hopefully generating a decent return.
But he had his share of bright moments around the field, and his presence helped Bath generate a decent tempo in the first half.
Because winners and finalists take by far the biggest share of prize money, most players must maximise their tournament participation to generate a decent income and fund a lifestyle of expensive coaching and international travel.
By Mr. Specht's reckoning it would cost $175 a square foot, or around $8.8 million, to build Parkway Plaza 4, and tenants would have to be willing to pay $24 a square foot to generate a decent return for the developer and his financiers.
Nor was it heavily exposed to AIG, an insurance giant that got into trouble.This was not because it saw disaster coming, says Bill Winters, former co-head of the firm's investment bank, but because it stuck by two basic principles: don't hold too much of anything, and only keep what you are sure will generate a decent risk-adjusted return.
One company tells us that after the huge discount offered and Startups.com's 50% commission, their listing, while generating a decent number of orders, was essentially a loss leader for them.
Turner, however, insists that creating money may be the only way of generating a decent rate of economic growth and escaping our current predicament.
