The development of pulp and paper industry would serve to reduce dependence on imported paper products.
Like many of the companies issuing debt, Ford is curbing its dependence on the commercial paper market.
Meanwhile, Prudential has no large amounts of debt coming due until 2011 and its management has weaned the company from dependence on the commercial paper market.
But Mr. Sherin said GE Capital had ample long-term funding, sharply reduced its dependence on short-term commercial paper and further trimmed its conservative leverage ratio — debts to underlying capital — to 6 to 1, from 7.1 to 1 a year ago.
He probably should, because he has a good sense of humor, but his delivery was too often undercut by his dependence on reading from his paper and constant digressions where he almost sounded like he was talking to himself rather than addressing the audience, and his voice would become almost inaudible.
While it is often assumed that housing market-related changes have resulted in increased dependence on parental resources, our paper provides more formal evidence of the existence of an effect of housing market characteristics in a comparative context.
This paper demonstrates the dependence on proline for mTORC1-dependent tumorigenesis in a subset of cancer cells.
G.E., led by Jeffrey R. Immelt, holds some $90 billion of cash to deal with any blips in refinancing the medium-term debt it took on during the crisis; halved its dependence on the short-term commercial paper market; and has nearly reached a goal of whittling down its finance arm's balance sheet to $440 billion.
In this month's The Nation, for example, DC editor Christopher Hayes reveals how an obscure tax provision, intended to reduce America's dependence on fossil fuels, has spurred paper makers to add diesel fuel to a process that requires none so that they can qualify for a government subsidy -- worth up to $8 billion this year to the 10 largest companies in the sector.
