Most foreign and domestic corporate debt indices also suffered in 2008, posting losses significantly worse than the average hedge fund.

These multimedia works are cross-marketed aggressively and sales frequently outperform the average stand-alone published work, making them a focus of corporate interest.

The aerodynamic design of the Taurus made the car more fuel efficient, allowing Ford to meet more stringent corporate average fuel economy ( CAFE ) standard applied by the United States government.

Although he helped many corporate executives succeed, he was appalled when the level of Fortune 500 CEO pay in America ballooned to hundreds of times that of the average worker.

The club is asset-rich, owning its stadium and the surrounding land, but had cash flow problems due to its low average home gate, poor on-field performances in recent seasons and lower than average merchandising and corporate sponsorship.

Just as he had done in Liaoning province, Bo ambitiously pursued foreign investment in the city, lowering corporate income tax rates ( 15 % compared to the 25 % national average ), and sought to stimulate rapid urbanization and industrialization.

At a security conference in 2002, after citing statistics that indicate that less than 0. 0025 percent of corporate revenue on average is spent on information-technology security, Clarke was famously heard to say, " If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, then you will be hacked.

Since 1981 U. S. corporate average fuel economy ( CAFE ) legislation on virtually all domestic vehicles have included overdrive to save fuel.

VNRs also often include interviews with experts ( who often have legitimate, if biased, expertise ); so called " man on the street " interviews with " average " people ; and pictures of celebrities, products, service demonstrations, corporate logos and the like, where applicable.

Hayduke is Abbey's codification of the wants, longings, and desires of the average male environmentalist awash in the frustrations of corporate greed and corruption where the voice of the little people remain unheard — until the little people rise up and take direct action because, as Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang puts it, " somebody has to do it.

In the 1980s corporate leaders flattened many organizational structures causing average spans to move closer to 1 to 10.

* income flowed out to investors will be subject to a new 34 % tax as of 2007 ( which falls to 31. 5 % in 2011 ), which approximates the average corporate income tax paid by corporations — this is equivalent to the current prohibition against deducting dividends paid to investors in determining corporate taxable income ; and

In contrast, the average salaryman works long working hours with little prestige, and with little hope of climbing the corporate hierarchy.

# The process by which corporate officers are paid large salaries and bonuses: for example, average CEO pay is estimated to be between 200 and 300 times the pay of an average worker as of 2005.

Esurance stopped prominently using the character in its advertising in June 2010 because the character was unpopular in surveys compared to the average for other corporate mascots such as Microsoft's Clippy, with the exception of her top score in the " sexiness " category.

Engine performance began declining in 1971 when GM issued a corporate edict mandating that all engines be capable of using lower-octane unleaded gasoline, which led to dramatic drops in compression ratios, along with performance and fuel economy.

Small changes in corporate tax rates for instance can radically change return on investment of capital projects, especially if the averted costs of future fossil fuel use are taken into account.

On 7 September 2005, the ALF detonated a bomb containing two litres of fuel and four pounds of explosives on the doorstop of the Buckinghamshire home of Paul Blackburn, GSK's corporate controller, causing minor damage.

For the corporate players in bulk shipping of relative low value raw materials, cost savings for fuel may appear as a driver to explore the Northern Sea Route for commercial transits, and not necessarily reduced lead time.

Avgas is sold in much lower volumes, but to many more individual aircraft, whereas jet fuel is sold in high volumes to large aircraft operated typically by airlines, military and large corporate aircraft.

Other Chrysler engines were released with more advanced combustion chambers, electronic fuel injection, and other modern improvements, but the length of the slant six precluded its use in Chrysler's front-drive cars, and a new V6 engine created by lopping two cylinders off the corporate LA V8 engine was devised for use in the new Dodge Dakota compact pickup truck for 1986.

Through his work for the Board of Equalization, Traynor was responsible for creating much of California's modern tax regime, including the vehicle registration fee ( 1933 ), sales tax ( 1933 ), income tax ( 1935 ), use tax ( 1935 ), corporate income tax ( 1937 ), and fuel tax ( 1937 ).

Brockway Glass Corporation, headquartered in nearby Brockway, Pennsylvania, constructed a corporate hangar on the apron to house their corporate aircraft ( and later a commuter airline service ), and Fixed Base Operator Beechwoods Flying Service constructed general aviation " T hangars ", fuel pumps and maintenance hangars.

Economist Richard C. Koo wrote that under ideal conditions, a country's economy should have the household sector as net savers and the corporate sector as net borrowers, with the government budget nearly balanced and net exports near zero.

Growth fell back to 3. 3 % in 2001 because of the slowing global economy, falling exports, and the perception that much-needed corporate and financial reforms have stalled.

Liechtenstein prospered, however, during the decades following, as its economy modernized with the advantage of low corporate tax rates which drew many companies to the country.

For months, Daley rallied the city and its corporate community around a pitch to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, arguing that hosting was a way to ignite the economy.

In late 2001, as a decisive reaction to the September 11 attacks and the various corporate scandals which undermined the economy, the Greenspan-led Federal Reserve initiated a series of interest rate cuts that brought the Federal Funds rate down to 1 % in 2004.

Financial capital can refer to money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or provide their services or to that sector of the economy based on its operation, i. e. retail, corporate, investment banking, etc.

Although Dow compiled the index to gauge the performance of the industrial sector within the American economy, the index's performance continues to be influenced by not only corporate and economic reports, but also by domestic and foreign political events such as war and terrorism, as well as by natural disasters that could potentially lead to economic harm.

Public services or corporate welfare: Rethinking the nation state in the global economy ( Pluto Press, Sterling, Va., 2001.

ShopNBC is owned by Value Vision Media with is corporate headquarters in Eden Prairie, MN although the largest part of its day-to-day operations are in Bowling Green making it a very important part of the local economy.

According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the cost to the economy of government regulation in the United States is approximately $ 1. 75 trillion per year, which exceeds all corporate pretax profits put together.

While Paul Volcker ’ s January 1984, testimony to Congress repeated that banks are “ special ” in performing “ a unique and critical role in the financial system and the economy ,” he still testified in support of bank affiliates underwriting securities other than corporate bonds.

Although he rejected this scholarship, Martin Mayer wrote in 1997 that since the late 1980s it had been “ clear ” that continuing the Glass-Steagall prohibitions was only “ permitting a handful of large investment houses and hedge funds to charge monopoly rents for their services without protecting corporate America, investors, or the banks .” Hyman Minsky, who disputed the benefits of “ universal banking ,” wrote in 1995 testimony prepared for Congress that “ repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, in itself, would neither benefit nor harm the economy of the United States to any significant extent .” In 1974 Mayer had quoted Minsky as stating a 1971 presidential commission ( the “ Hunt Commission ”) was repeating the errors of history when it proposed relaxing Glass-Steagall and other legislation from the 1930s.

All leading up to a corporate control of the Swedish economy unpassed since the popularisation of liberalism at the end of the 19th century.

The SDP favoured a radical social market economy, whilst the Liberals mostly favoured a more interventionist, corporate style approach.

In the early-twentieth century, as the spectacular increase in corporate concentration amplified the unequal distribution of wealth, American Legal Realists launched their attack on the legitimacy a self-executing, decentralized, competitive market economy.

Roosevelt's New Deal policy and subsequent battles in court over the policy's control of the economy and at last compromise with national corporate leaders squeezed out and finally marginalized the other groups.

Subsequently, there was increased cooperation between corporate and government leaders in modernizing the economy.

In a powerful scene set in a conference room of imperial décor and intimidating proportion, Chayefsky presents his prescient articulation of the evolutionary force of a forthcoming global economy and corporate prominence in the political sphere.

As the Japanese economy was rebuilt after the war, Fuji Bank expanded its business in syndicated lending, corporate banking, public money management, mortgages and retail financial services.

Some libertarians in the USA consider that the end of slavery coincided with the start of a regime " tainted " by aggressive corporate nationalism, or government intervention into the economy.

A separate report from the Roger Martin task force on the economy found the HST would lower taxes overall as “ increased revenue from the harmonized sales tax is matched by reductions in corporate and personal taxes and by tax credits.