Of course, those disclosures, taken at face value, are about as concrete as a campaign promise, with vague asset ranges ($1 million to $5 million) and definitions.
His plan for a "public-private investment fund" to buy toxic assets was vague and its logic that a nudge from government, in the form of cheap financing, would enliven a moribund market was heroic.
"Question marks remain in the agreement concerning freedom of action for U.S. soldiers, vague security commitments and protection of Iraqi assets," said one defense analyst.
Everyone wants to buy "undervalued" assets, but "undervalued" is a vague word.
When analysts pushed for answers on how Tyco accounted for its acquisitions, questions about asset manipulation were met with vague responses.
Yet many investors, even those without traditional pensions, still reach retirement with only the vaguest notion of how to switch from accumulating assets to tapping them to finance their usual standard of living.
Answering all these vague college essay questions about the future, past, present, assets, flaws, pluses, drawbacks, ups, downs, sideways-backwards-forwards-and-round-the-bends has, in the end, benefited my writing.
The state is selling a valuable, profit-making asset, substantially below market value, in the vague hope that some of the corporate entities who buy it may happen to hold your pension.
Recently orphaned, Lang moves to Williamsburg with a substantial inheritance and the vague ambition of joining the Brooklyn literati, only to imperil his assets and his dignity with alarming frequency.
But the vague wording of the announcement led to speculation that it might move the assets to an affiliate or otherwise keep a toehold in the U.S. businesses.
