"It was that having this big piece of beachfront property would be an absolute guarantee, as much of guarantee as you could find, that we would have a top-five television show during the season," he said.
We spend four times as much money guaranteeing mortgages as we do building rental housing for poor people.
And when they do, inevitably, trade the players, the huge sums, as much as $50 million, guarantee the clubs' survival.
At least, as much of a guarantee as you can get with something from Kickstarter.
Its arrival is seems like as much of a guarantee as your parents remembering to DVR this week's Modern Family.
Such guarantees played a significant part in the downfall of Phillips, which had to pay out tens of millions of dollars to sellers when numerous works failed to fetch as much as their guaranteed price.How ironic that, having criticised Phillips at the time, both Christie's and Sotheby's are now competing with ever-higher guarantees of their own, in the manner of a losing gambler doubling up.
At the same time, she noted that her old insurance would cost at least as much without offering guaranteed coverage and a minimum set of benefits.
Asked at a news conference today whether the commission could promise that the combination of personal accounts and the guaranteed benefit would be at least as much as the current guaranteed benefit, Mr. Parsons remained silent and Mr. Moynihan did not provide a direct response.
Unable to obtain financing or secure anchor tenants, Mr. Silverstein has demanded that the Port Authority guarantee as much as $3.2 billion in loans.
Andreas Vosskuhle, the lead presiding judge, said in a televised announcement of the court's decision that it was based on the need to guarantee "as much parliamentary legitimization as possible".
