Word: recoupment
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...simple fact that Get Out of Cambridge provides a much-needed service that has heretofore not existed on campus and therefore deserves support from the larger undergraduate community. Additionally, since the UC was given a stake in the business in return for its support, it may actually recoup its original investment, allowing it to give more grants to other student groups...
...Making the case that newspapers cannot recoup their value is fairly easy. The argument has moved beyond that part of the media industry. The value of feature films is under attack. DVD sales used to drive a lot of the profit from movies. Consumers are getting what they used to see on DVD from the internet. They now often pay less than they did for the physical copy of a film. In many cases, the internet can be used to get the film without paying at all. And, it is easier than sneaking into a movie theater undetected...
...already doing this, and some, such as JP Morgan Chase, have announced major new efforts, since it is generally in a lender's best interest to keep borrowers in their homes, even if they're paying less. Foreclosure is such a costly process, a lender might easily only recoup half of what it's owed. In August, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation instituted an aggressive loan-modification effort at the failed IndyMac Bank, and that program is now a template for what the government might encourage at a national level. Basically, the FDIC wants to set up a series...
...cash, and the banks will be stuck with toxic debt. Faced with this tight time frame, the banks might not risk a DIP financing even when things are flush; in down times, forget about it. Once bankrupt and unable to find a buyer, a company must dissolve immediately, and recoup what it can through liquidation. "Retailers can't get access to financing, just when they need it most," says Larry Gottlieb, a bankruptcy lawyer at Cooley Godward Kronish. (Read "Why Circuit City Busted, While Best Buy Boomed...
...were particularly useful in offering an optimistic position on the government’s plan to bailout the faltering economy—a view he said he had not seen elsewhere. Summers compared the expensive bailout plan to the purchase of a painting that can be sold later to recoup some of the price, as opposed to a vacation whose cost is lost once the fun is over. “The government is expecting to get a lot of that money back, and that’s not something that’s come up very often in discussions...