Levinson also noted that because of the secret nature of the negotiations, it's impossible to know what leverage Powers used to win the money, and that approving the payout might have been a good business decision by the supervisors that prevents Powers from making any future claims against the county.
One plaintiff, who spoke on the condition that she not be identified, said the shares of the Premium Point Company had been distributed unfairly to a few people, making it impossible for other homeowners to leverage any power in the community.
In good times, the combination of the rising tide and the use of leverage often makes it impossible to tell good traders from bad ones, with most people generating decent to spectacular returns.
"It will be impossible to rebuild that business model, which relied so heavily on leverage," said William Hambrecht, founder and chief executive of the investment firm WR Hambrecht & Company.
If the call options or any profits from them move outside the United States, then it would be almost impossible to get them back, depriving the government of its strongest leverage in the case.
As individuals and organizations leverage technology for intended and unintended uses, it becomes virtually impossible to foresee all threats and vulnerabilities that surface in the process.
Consequently, the endogeneity of the tax status may produce a spurious correlation between the leverage ratio and the marginal tax rate, making it difficult, if not virtually impossible, to draw causal inferences.
Thus, we have a fundamentalist regime that leverages its huge oil revenues to influence groups and regimes world-wide; a geopolitical player impossible to ignore, and one capable of altering the course of international legality.
It was impossible to determine last night whether Professor Gates would seriously consider an offer from Princeton, or was merely seeking to gain additional leverage for his department with Mr. Summers.
