They are what I call "high-leverage" activities that also served to broaden my interests in science and in the higher education enterprise as a whole.
Hence the obvious comparison with Blackstone, which went public in June 2007 as similarly favorable market conditions made debt cheap and plentiful and spurred record leveraged buyout activity.
It's also true that more and more companies are becoming interested in leveraging online activity and interaction to create meaningful connections, relationships, and services offline.
On the one hand, many destination-country governments have started to recognize the role that migrants can and do play in the development of their homelands and have put in place "co-development" schemes (Kabbanji, 2013; Weil, 2002) to leverage transnational activities for the benefit of development programs.
That's why I think there is a strong case to look at the way in which you can hive off or insulate very high-risk, over-leverage banking activities from low-risk, high street retail banking".
Knowing that their bonds could be converted into risky equity, the theory runs, big investors like insurers and pension funds would go through banks' books with a fine-tooth comb, spotting any leverage-pumping activities on the part of profit-hungry CEOs.
Furthermore, a strong information system can not only serve to prevent emerging epidemics but also be adapted and leveraged for activities such as contact tracing in the event of a disease outbreak.
Thus, we propose to leverage implicit user activity (e.g., pause/play, seek/scrub), in order to dynamically identify video segments of interest.
Pershing highlighted America's strength in the private sector, and the promise of green bonds for infrastructure and resilience, using public sector dollars to leverage private sector activity.
The technology behind sales forecasting platforms leverage all the activity data around sales from CRM systems as well as from email, calendar, social media, and other sources.
