And after the flaming disaster of the Galaxy Note 7, which had to be recalled after some batteries caught fire, the risk-margin for Samsung on this potential release must be very tight indeed….
When oil prices plunge by 10% daily, this is obviously disruptive in the short term: credit spreads in resources and related sectors explode, and leveraged investors are forced into asset fire sales to meet margin calls.
"Retailers have learned painful lessons around the balance of inventory, versus margin-crushing fire sales the last days before Christmas," he said.
That is partly because it has shown little interest in changing the existing practice of demanding that the factories, often operating at razor-thin margins, meet fire safety standards at their own cost.
It looked certain, on paper, that if engineers built a laser of a given size (the world's largest, by some margin) and fired it at a target of a prescribed shape and composition, the result would be a net gain of energy.
He was a pyromaniac, standing unnoticed on the margins of the fire he'd set.
Operating margins are on fire, and it's really a case of leading by example".
Additionally, controlling our energy costs is critically important, particularly when our margins are under fire, as they are today.
In contrast, at a peatland margin where post-fire hydrological conditions were moderated by larger-scale groundwater flow, flooding and rapid water table declines were infrequent and, subsequently, greater peatland-dwelling moss recolonization was observed.
