To solve for this, Ribbon wants to give every consumer the leverage of an all-cash offer while eliminating the mortgage contingency in home buying.
"What you usually have in government is lots of different programs all created for different reasons with no adding up, no synthesis, no leveraging of all these disparate pieces," he said.
Implement a standardized multivendor architecture; maintaining buying relationships with more than one manufacturer maintains leverage on all of them.
Echoing Hockfield, Herman emphasized the need to embrace changing demographics and promote diversity, which she defined as "the leveraging of all human and institutional capital". Encouraging traditionally underrepresented minorities and women to enter science and engineering fields is necessary to ensure that the United States remains globally competitive, she said.
LEVERAGE For all of the onetime candidates, an endorsement ends whatever leverage they might hope to have at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., in August.
The Super Bowl to Super Tuesday build-out is the same use of leverage, all the more valuable during a writers' strike that has denuded other networks of fresh programming and a heated competition for the political audience, as well.
SIBs reverse the process with an ingenious model that leverages the core competencies of all the parties.
In other words, they've given up on their idea of leveraging all the known social connections among Yahoo email, address book and messenger users.
At the same time, a network, with the increased leverage of controlling enough national distribution all by itself to satisfy most advertisers, would have no further incentive to pay affiliates to carry its programming.
They're missing the greatest leverage point of all: the multiplying effects of smart investments in fundraising.
