The value of the capital in bank vaults, therefore, fell drastically reducing their ability to make loans to solid non-speculative businesses.
Although an impact of multidrug-resistance proteins (especially of ABCB1) was already suggested [6 8], the reasons for the general inefficacy of Triapine against solid tumors are widely speculative.
As the architectural models of the future blend in with the added attractions of free stuff and alcohol, it becomes hard to work out what is real and what is speculative, what is solid and what is pure hype.
Are the risks supported by solid evidence, or are they speculative?
The apparent electro-coagulation effect may improve the prospects for solids recovery, though this is speculative, as the mechanism is scarcely documented.
And the defense, a speculative 45-yarder aside, has been fairly solid, too.
Investors who have been bitten in the past by these companies and think that this area is speculative should realize many technology companies have solid balance sheets and good management teams, he says.
The favourites are getting heavy in League Two, presenting us with a weekend when the preferred course of action is to dabble on a couple of speculative long shots in the absence of a single solid wager.
In the meantime, though, every fact in the case, no matter how solid-seeming, can be countered by some other fact, however speculative.
The passages of Goethe's Italian diary that ruthlessly replace self-indulgent emotionalism with solid objects and presences are close kin to Kant's trashing of the old speculative metaphysics, a clearing of ground for new, firmer structures.
