In the second quarter of 2000, $747 million of the money Enron said it had made was "unrealized" — that is, it was money that executives thought they were going to make at some point in the future.
Regulators allow companies, currently, to book them as assets, and on the assumption that they are at zero risk of being stranded - left below ground, "value"unrealized - over the full life of their exploitation.
She is especially good at one-line descriptions that neatly sum up a character or situation: Paul Rubin's wastrel son pushes "unrealized potential before him like a baby carriage"; the tabloid hack, alone at night in her office, eats ramen noodles from a vending machine, "their texture just a few molecular recombinations from the Styrofoam cup containing them".
As they said good-bye they remarked how strange it was that a love unrealized could've given so much joy...and so much pain.
Regulators allow companies, currently, to book them as assets, and on the assumption that they are at zero risk of being stranded - left below ground, "value"unrealized - over the full life of their exploitation.
BEIJING — The Beijing Games end Sunday with the greatest fears avoided and the greatest hopes unrealized.
He is 71 years old and has missed most of the campaign deadlines to run for public office, leaving his own mayoral hopes unrealized.
A hedge fund like Cramer's, by contrast, takes a management fee of one per cent and no less than twenty per cent of the yearly gains, realized or unrealized.
But it was a mirage, a fleeting image of glory unrealized.
WAYNE ALAN RUSSO A Trip Unrealized Wayne Alan Russo never got to Egypt.
