After repeatedly replacing damaged or stolen plumbing, electrical wiring and equipment and structural members, Roger lamented: "I have become the lessor of two evils!" The quotation, in a nutshell, summed up Roger's caustic wit and realistic assessment of a situation.
Some tribes see Maliki as the lessor of two evils, while other tribes see it the other way around".
So far, the U.S. has the most well developed short-term financial markets, so when there is a "flight to quality," which these days means the lessor of other evils, foreigners rush to liquid financial instruments like T-Bills.
It is also the largest lessor of railroad cars, and of containers.; Way back in 1933 GE Capital was started to help hard-pressed consumers finance the purchase of refrigerators and washing machines and the like, but it was under Jack Welch and GE Capital's chairman, Gary Wendt, that it has emerged as one of GE's mightiest money machines.
John Rogers: Pitney Bowes is the dominant manufacturer and lessor of postal meters and has been for a very long time.
There's a 10% chance that the airplane you fly in is owned by GE Capital, the largest owner and lessor of commercial aircraft.
Most recently, it announced the purchase of Rigg Tools, a lessor of oilfield equipment.
Interpool Inc., a lessor of cargo containers, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy a rival, Transamerica Leasing Inc., for around $675 million in cash.
This lessor of container ships was trading at just 0.22 times its book value in early 2010 amid fears that its top customer, France's CMA CGM, was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Initially it was supposed to resume in November 2013, which Biman failed to as it was unable to find a lessor of aircraft.
