But these businesses have grown quickly, and their leverage ratios are mostly back to normal.These companies have proved extraordinarily good at getting big.
The alliance database reveals that big pharmaceutical companies mostly leverage external assets (in-licensing; value capture or inbound innovation) between 2001 and 2006.
Existing methods mostly leverage the information directly associated with sensor services, such as detailed service descriptions or quality of service information.
Yet many corporate empires created in the boom years were plunged into existential crisis because of their large debt.The tycoons had mostly leveraged up in the recently deregulated Israeli capital markets, and found themselves overextended after the crash.
Fried envisions a world where people treat hardware the same way they do software, by mostly leveraging open source tools to quickly start up their own companies.
The funds would have those hedge-fund characteristics, says Mr Bonham Carter, but would not go short or use leverage.Mostly, though, relative thinking remains entrenched.
The MSN team, predictably, talked mostly about "leveraging Windows", Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system, which excited nobody.
The products and businesses that leverage and create data have mostly been software and online services: maps, browsers, Gmail, Google documents, operating systems (Android on mobiles and Chrome on laptops).
The venture capital industry provides much of the capital, but is mostly structured to leverage local networks of trusted relationships.
From partnering with Square to turn each Romney activist into a mobile fundraiser to getting Googlers to give up their famous 20% time for the campaign*, Moffatt has leveraged Silicon Valley's brightest minds, mostly for free, to give the once digital underdog some much-deserved tech cred.
