Mr. Lay said the effect of these poor investments had been compounded by the company's issuing or guaranteeing too much debt.
"If you scale back the government guarantee too much, then you end up with a really segmented market where people who have pristine credit scores and lots of money can get good, safe, well-priced mortgages, but everybody else can't".
DEFENSE Fifty million dollars guaranteed was too much to spend on Mario Williams, especially given that the seventh-year pro has battled injuries for much of the past two years.
Transmission integrity should be guaranteed without increasing too much system complexity, considering also that we have decided to exploit only transmit diversity in order to keep the mobile terminal cheaper.
The implied public guarantee encouraged too much risk-taking, they say.
We have, on the whole, have been used to working abroad and mostly ignoring what has been going on at "home", because in the past there has always been a solid gold guarantee that not too much will ever change, and "home" will always continue to be the same decade after decade.
A guaranteed seven-year term allows too much potential for hubris, mismanagement and indifference to the needs of the American people at the service of powerful corporate and moneyed interests.
The SEC may ultimately claim that it didn't have enough resources to have caught Madoff, that it would have cost too much to guarantee that outcome.
Chaperoning every field trip, serving on every parents' association, fancy parties, etc. — this is too much, and I guarantee you the kids are going to forget half of it.
Too much flake, too much cider... guarantee I'm looking at a charge some time in the next couple of months, and bang up by October, November".
