A wonderful tool that generates heightened profits when assets are rising, leverage can crush you when it comes time to sell.
Moody's Investor Service cut the debt ratings of General Motors on Friday and warned that it may cut them again, citing heightened, profit-corroding competition in the U.S. auto market and GM's multibillion-dollar pension and health-care liabilities.
That hasn't stopped Carson, however, from taking a book tour during the middle of his campaign to exploit the heightened notoriety and accompanying profit that seeking government office can confer.
Even Amazon and Yahoo! were questionable ventures given the lack of profits and heightened malaise in the market.
But it still hasn't made a profit, heightening the tension between commerce and craft.
But pressure to produce profit, he said, heightened in this case by the deal with America Online, inevitably aggravates professional differences and personal conflicts.
It spills over into leadership distraction and turnover, forced alteration of a working profit model and heightened scrutiny in the future.
[Page C4.] S.& P. Ends the Week 1.9% Higher The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell as a decline in profits at Providian Financial heightened concern more consumers would default on loans.
For example consider opportunity discovery wherein individuals develop heightened awareness ("alertness") of arbitrage situations for profit making (Kirzner, 1979; Sarasvathy et al. 2005).
The case marks the first time the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken action against the for-profit college industry, which is facing heightened scrutiny for its marketing practices and student debt burdens from more than a dozen attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Education.
The Swift Transportation Company, one of the nation's biggest trucking companies, said yesterday that profit in the second quarter rose 80percentt, beating a heightened forecast as an improving economy helped sales.
