The timing of a strike may depend on when the actors can wield maximum leverage.
For weeks, administration officials have been saying they wanted to reserve their biggest gun for maximum leverage.
This is a risky game with maximum leverage usually around 30 times the principal that an individual deposits.
But analysts agree that the president's moment of maximum leverage — his meeting with Mr. Lee — has come and gone.
Mayoral campaigns present the Republican Party in New York with a moment of maximum leverage, and party officials know it.
Furthermore, as a practical matter it is at the local level where commercial interests exercise maximum leverage, often to the detriment of the public lands.
Iran is trying to position itself as the regional superpower, while also trying to generate maximum leverage before expected talks with the incoming Obama administration.
O'Reilly's countersuit is alleging extortion and accuses Mackris and Morelli of trying to 'extract maximum leverage against Fox and O'Reilly right before the presidential election'.
The reason these fund-raising extortion tactics succeed is that politicians deploy them while bills are making their way through Congress, when lawmakers possess maximum leverage.
While Greece is likely to deploy maximum leverage in dealing with the holdouts, analysts maintain that it is in the country's interest not to totally alienate those investors.
He also wants to maintain maximum leverage within the Democratic establishment, especially with the Clintons, three people close to him said.
