Zingales (1998) argues that high leverage reduces survival chances by curtailing investments, and Giroud et al. (2012) find significant performance improvements after debt reductions.
With time running short, that would have provided them with additional leverage, and some chance that their bill was adopted outright.
The Americans are renegotiating a further 20-year rollover lease on the islands, giving the UK government rare leverage and a chance to say the lease for the strategically important base would only be renewed if the Chagossians were allowed to return to at least the outlying islands, away from Diego Garcia.
Some are trying to cut those costs; but with little in the way of leverage over producers their chances of success look slender.Gas prices in continental Europe are mainly set by a decades-old system of long-term contracts, linked to the price of oil.
Knowing how to utilize and leverage both improves your chances of being hired and presents you as a well-educated and knowledgeable applicant.
"We've now got our chance to leverage the brand over time," Mr. Dee said.
His agent, Adam Katz, is experienced and talented and would not allow this chance for leverage to pass.
Much of the Fed's money was gone within minutes — and so was the Fed's leverage, or any real chance of getting the money back.
He might be a bust, but he might also go through the roof, giving you a chance to leverage his inherent volatility into a competitive advantage.
Wattpad, the Toronto-based social network based on writing and reading, has just announced a new crowdfunding platform called "Fan Funding" which offers authors on its network the chance to leverage their huge followings for raising capital towards creative works.
But Shazam wants you to ingest your music a bit differently from here on out, and has launched the Shazam Player app to give users a better chance to leverage its new feature, Lyric Play.
