Nonetheless, he molded Tyco in his own image: it played fast and loose — incorporating itself in Bermuda, failing to disclose acquisitions, larding its financial statements with confusing footnotes — and placed more emphasis on clever asset-shuffling than on solid business practices.
Hypothetically, any politically unpopular investments, clever and complex asset sales designed to lower Romney's tax bills or other activities would be far more difficult to decipher.
Oftentimes this means cutting features and being clever about art assets just to keep myself from catching on fire. .
Secretary Geithner's proposal to put public capital alongside private investment to buy troubled assets seems clever, but doesn't it simply reprise the problem that bedeviled Paulson: At what price will these assets be purchased?
Again, Weber's choreography is a real asset, with a clever little dance involving people who are seated (very Spring Awakening) and a lot of fine work with the ensemble that is memorable.
Increasingly, companies and their clever bankers are using these assets to raise cash.The method of choice is securitisation, the issuing of bonds based on the various revenues thrown off by intellectual property.
Over the last five years, Russia de-privatized (a clever euphemism for "stole") oil assets from private investors and has been milking petro cash flows from now state-owned oil companies.
"Our outstanding scenery; our proud industrial past; our cultural assets; our creative, clever resourceful people; our premier sporting achievements - all of these things provide a unique culture which I am extremely proud to be a part of".
Foreman said what he learned most was how to get along with reporters and to be more clever in the ring -- an asset that allowed Foreman to recapture a heavyweight belt 20 years after the "Rumble in the Jungle".
In an especially clever move, it flipped ABN's Italian assets for a $4.6 billion profit only a month after buying them.
Not only was he clever, he was a good-looker, always an asset for a leader.
