Sentences with phrase «as significant amounts of funding»

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For example, if a founder contributes a significant amount of cash (i.e. enough to buy a car) to fund the company, then I might suggest that the company issue preferred stock with a liquidation preference and no other rights to the founder, as opposed to issuing common stock.

They're encouraged that there was very little conviction in the selling under the 200 - day moving average, as the COT Report has shown a relatively small number of net fund longs and healthy amount of gross spec shorts - not depicting a market vulnerable to a significant sharp selloff.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

«This agreement ensures that nutrient - rich vegetables such as potatoes, corn and peas will remain part of a balanced, healthy diet in federally funded school meals and recognizes the significant amounts of potassium, fiber and vitamins A and C provided by tomato paste, ensuring that students may continue to enjoy healthy meals such as pizza and pasta,» said Kraig Naasz, president of the American Frozen Food Institute.

Such measures include: broad expansions of executive authority to redirect or reduce funding after the enactment of the Budget and the shifting of billions of dollars in spending outside the Budget; the appropriation of significant amounts with little detail as to specific purposes or recipients; and reduction of the independent oversight of public resources.»

The Senate also had its way on supporting the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, an Obama - era priority in which individual agencies fund large centers that attract significant amounts of private sector money as well.

Second, choice - based reforms such as charter schools and vouchers, if thoroughly implemented (and combined with more rational state funding), could eliminate a significant amount of the complexity associated with district finances.

As regular readers know, I have a significant amount of my investment portfolio in index funds.

Similarly when switching between ETFs, conducting a NAV trade may prove an attractive and efficient consideration to ensure seamless exposure to the desired assets, as long as the methodologies used to calculate the value are broadly similar or if the two funds share a significant amount of common holdings.

Lightly regulated pools of capital in which the hedge fund manager invests a significant amount of his or her own capital into the fund and whose offering memorandum allows for the fund to execute aggressive strategies that are unavailable to mutual funds such as short selling.

I know the college students haven't had time to build up any net worth, but those 40 and above should have both large emergency funds as well as significant amounts of investments saved by this time.

As an awareness package people most at risk of being targeted are pre-retirees who are looking to put significant amounts of money into retirement, particularly SMSF trustees, self - funded retirees, small business owners, company directors and individual property investors.

A lot of the evidence for the success of particular approaches is not as strong as we would like, and we think that further research is one good activity to fund.92 But it is also likely that at least some current approaches, and possibly nearly all of them, are among the best ways we can now use significant amounts of resources to help animals.

It seems to me you may have painted yourself into a corner where you run the risk of either hypocritically refusing to acknowledge other groups as «front groups» (ie., forecastthefacts.org or 350.org, etc.) or somehow saying that because they support causes you agree with it doesn't matter if an organization receives a significant amount of funding or infrastructure support from a single individual or company that operates deep in the background.

Term plans help in better financial planning as it also helps the insured to save a significant amount of funds, which he, otherwise would have spent as premium in other life insurance plan.

But with reports highlighting continued financial pressures at FF, the revelation highlights potential flaws in the law, as a significant amount of public funding has been appropriated for the project, Schwartz's chief of staff, Grant Hewitt, said.

However, in 2008, there was a significant decline in both the amount of capital raised and the number of funds reaching a final close in comparison to previous years, as only three industrial funds closed, raising an aggregate $ 700 million in commitments.