It was, at that time and for over 17 years, the largest leverage buyout in history.

Staff buyout

By the end of the 1980s the excesses of the buyout market were beginning to show, with the bankruptcy of several large buyouts including Robert Campeau's 1988 buyout of Federated Department Stores, the 1986 buyout of the Revco drug stores, Walter Industries, FEB Trucking and Eaton Leonard.

For a long time, the participants said little about the buyout aspects of the solution.

Leverage is down sharply.

Europe is not without leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

After the buyout, Schwab became the first president of the U.S. Steel Corporation, the company formed out of Carnegie's former holdings.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

He also has invested in non traditional asset classes, including real estate, oil, timber, private equity, and venture capital and buyout firms.

Regarding a one time staff buyout, my delegation can go along with it only if it can be implemented without additional resources.

Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission, Safeway Ltd, the employer, and the Union had negotiated a buyout package for senior employees. The Alberta Court of Appeal held that certain employees who were ineligible to the employee buyout program because they had not worked sufficient hours due to their disabilities were discriminated against.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

Banks balance sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and leverage ratios.

With little leverage, Iran s leaders would then have two options.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

So they also need clear, albeit different, limits on leverage.

International agencies could use their leverage to help make this happen.

(c) Domestic economic considerations (leverage farming activities, increased domestic protein production)

This form of financing is often used by private equity investors to reduce the amount of equity capital required to finance a leveraged buyout or major expansion.

In 2001, it was unified with the World Championship (formerly the WCW Championship) following the WWF's buyout of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and became the Undisputed Championship.

The Court concluded that the Union had a duty to accommodate by making reasonable efforts to avoid the discriminatory effects of the buyout provision on the complainants.

The leverage of any public entity must be monitored, supervised, and restricted.

Nowadays, the West does not have the leverage to enforce these conditions.

But offsetting fiscal austerity with ultra easy monetary policies risks fueling a resurgence of private leverage in advanced economies and already has produced the dangerous spillover of rising leverage in emerging economies.

Some propose bringing in the European Central Bank to leverage the EFSF s funds.

When times are good, rising leverage can make underlying problems seem to disappear.

China remains the only foreign power with any real leverage over Kim s government.

Finally, the leverage of financial investments remains very low compared to other countries.

Leverage in some emerging markets household and corporate sectors has reached record levels.

As a result, by 2010, China s overall leverage ratio had risen by 30 .

And limits on financial institutions leverage will change only in the next decade.

We can now leverage microfluidics, like this chip made by Steve Quake at Stanford.

They should consciously recognize that they've built an appointment dynamic and leverage the games.

Belarus s reliance on cheap energy supplies from Russia could also be used as leverage.

Usually, it is credit that provides the leverage, and credit is by nature reflexive.

Increasing leverage boosts returns on the upside but is very risky on the downside.

But America s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region s axis of evil.

Reforming financial sector taxation would also help to reduce excessive risk taking and leverage.

There are many reasons for the underpricing of risk and the rise in leverage.

We need partnerships that leverage the knowledge and solutions that come from local communities.

(ii) Agreeing to provide the Secretary General with the authority and resources to pursue a one time staff buyout so as to refresh and realign the staff to meet current needs