"This is a highly speculative business, that's why the government is in it in the first place, " said Eric Edgington, a spokesman for the FCIC.
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Some of these people made their money dishonestly, others through speculative business practices, but most by simply working hard at a time when money was easy.
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That would be nice, but evidence hotel companies can cut costs steeply to break even with sharply lower revenues is more reassuring than speculative business forecasts.
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This is about the most speculative business I can think of, both from the investor getting his money back and the customer coming back in one piece,
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Owners holding land for speculative business during the bubble years should be persuaded or ordered to do something productive with their tracts of land or pay a higher tax.
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A TOUGHER new approach on filing annual returns by the Companies Registry may deter local and overseas investors from setting up dormant companies in Hong Kong for speculative business only.
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It's a system created over time to deal with this highly speculative business, full of unknowns and complexities that make accounting tricky and create plenty of wiggle room for abuse.
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To judge from Trachtenberg's account, Finkelstein's fatal failing was that he counted too strongly on good economic times to repay Macy's huge debt, which is hardly an unusual flaw in a highly speculative business.
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But in the last few years our stock market has proved willing and eager to finance brand-new companies with highly speculative business plans that require years of losses before anyone will know whether they make sense.
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Both had moved to France during the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft to practise the principles laid out in her seminal work " A Vindication of the Rights of Woman " ( 1792 ) and Imlay to engage in speculative business ventures.
