But suspicion about the machinery, stoked by Democratic lawmakers who paint dark scenarios about its potential liabilities, runs deep.
How deep is this liability pit?
Consequently, you've got big holes that need to be filled at the state level and unfunded liabilities that just get deeper in terms of economic distress.
Yesterday an attorney for R.J. Reynolds, the No. 2 U.S. cigarette maker, said in court that the company was so deep in debt already that its liabilities exceed its assets by $499 million.
Although the meeting had centered on matters of liability, it also exposed a deeper confusion.
Equally, when the government hands out permits to drill, it will want to deal only with counterparties with pockets deep enough to take on such potential liabilities.
"One has to look deeper at the structure of the assets and liabilities of the banking sector".
"How deep into Andersen's liability pool have they just gone in this one settlement?" said Julia Grant, a professor of accounting at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University.
Not all scholars are convinced that the born global firms have sufficiently deep knowledge-based resources that could help offset liabilities of newness, smallness, and foreignness while internationalizing.
Despite Mr. Monserrate's liabilities, he remains convinced that he retains a deep well of support in the district, which covers parts of Corona, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst and is an overwhelmingly Latino section of western Queens.
