Michael F. Gambardella, mining analyst at J. P. Morgan in New York, says the "enormous" balance sheet and borrowing capacity of Alcoa put it at the top his list of favorites.
Things may get worse: Citi is involved in financing some giant buyouts still to come to the market, such as TXU, a Texas energy-utility, and First Data, which processes credit cards.Citi should be able to take the losses in its stride, given its enormous balance sheet and low cost of funds (thanks to cheap deposit funding).
We believe these enormous balance sheets will yield a very active and hyper-competitive consumer Internet funding and M&A market in 2015 and 2016.
"The problems that these cause include acid rain; enormous balance-of-payment problems in the case of oil; the risk of war to ensure oil supplies; carcinogens in the air as oil and coal are burned; heavy metals such as mercury, lead and uranium emitted to the atmosphere as coal burns; black lung disease as coal is mined; vast areas of the country ruined as coal is strip-mined, etc".
In 30 or 40 years, if things are really grim, might the federal government try to tax withdrawals from Roth accounts with enormous balances?
Republicans, when they ran things in Washington, racked up enormous balances on the nation's credit cards, with things like Medicare Part D, which helps seniors pay for prescription drugs.
The task he took on was enormous, balancing regional demands, competition among his subordinates, morale among the rank and file, attempts by Congress to manage the army's affairs too closely, requests by state governors for support, and an endless need for resources with which to feed, clothe, equip, arm, and move the troops.
Only one member of the Board of Visitors, Helen Dragas, challenged the legality of discussing the enormous balances only in a closed session, the ethics of raising tuition while pleading poverty to parents and legislators, and the wisdom of directing the money entirely to faculty projects rather than rebalancing the tuition scales.
Those enormous account balances, coming in from investors from all over the world, should have attracted the bank's attention, the complaint said.
The latter is so beefed up here his walk is more of a shimmy, enormous torso balanced on dinky waist; so tough he removes a plaster cast from his arm simply by clenching.
Time and again he takes enormous care over balance and colour, and the Bayreuth orchestra plays on top form for him.
