Excessive debt can bulk up and fuel an economy for many years before it is understood.
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He is a good organiser and has started to bulk up and become a real physical presence.
As capital flows accelerated, the banks were encouraged to bulk up like fitness freaks taking to steroids.
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For instance, Wyeth is developing a medicine that would treat muscular dystrophy, but might also help athletes bulk up.
And they have to bulk up their game there and we have to be with them on that way.
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In fast food, fillers are additives that bulk up the weight of a food with less expensive, less nutritious ingredients.
He views market sell-offs as opportunities to bulk up on fatter yields.
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Similarly, taking Social Security later rather than earlier and continuing to earn some income can also bulk up your income through your retirement.
T-Mobile will bulk up its U.S. wireless network starting this quarter and will sell high-speed data services beginning next year, company execs said Friday.
Capital One Financial continues to bulk up its analytics arm with the acquisition of data aggregator firm Bundle Corp. for an undisclosed sum.
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Wal-Mart is also looking to bulk up in developed retail markets like Japan where it operates more than 400 stores under the Seiyu banner.
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Expect the company to attract its own takeover bids, perhaps from Verizon, which needs to bulk up to take on its now significantly larger rival.
Using taxpayers' money to bulk up abroad would be frowned on.
United Nations officials have asked the Security Council to approve the deployment of 3, 000 more peacekeepers to bulk up the 17, 000-strong force already spread across Congo.
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And last year, HTC snapped up non-Chinese divisions of Dopod, aiming to bulk up the marketing and distribution of HTC-branded phones in Australia and Southeast Asia.
The handset maker, according to one person close to the company, is trying to bulk up on mobile software as mobile becomes a larger portion of its revenue.
However, just like the use of steroids to pump up athletic performance can lead to disastrous health consequences, excess debt can bulk up economic performance that is not sustainable.
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For instance, Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ) is developing a medicine that would treat muscular dystrophy, but might also help athletes bulk up.
For the smaller US Airways, it was a chance to bulk up to compete on an equal footing with the big domestic carriers on the tarmac, United and Delta.
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If you're constantly writing personal checks to bulk up your LLC's finances, a plaintiff can use the paper trail to show that the rental home wasn't really a separate investment.
For years, I seemed to always come up with reasons we should wait: The timing didn't seem right, or we needed to bulk up our savings just a bit more.
Spitzer's case is focusing on a few arcane areas of accounting--including an allegedly bogus deal by AIG with General Re, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway, to bulk up AIG's balance sheet.
Some analysts, including Glenn Novarro at Banc of America Securities, have in the past liked the idea of pairing the smaller defibrillator maker with a larger company that could bulk up its sales force.
And it wasn't me trying to bulk up and remain healthy in order to gain a significant advantage over my Norweigian nemesis, who was always trying to pip me to the post.
Smaller miners could look to bulk up by buying assets that the major miners are divesting, and the big players will still be on the hunt for the right kind of assets.
The Livable Future blog has a breakdown of how much of various antibiotics are given to livestock usually not to fight infection but because the antibiotics make the animals bulk up faster.
Skype, which registered for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in August, has been trying to bulk up its business offerings, largely because it believes corporate users will be more willing to pay for its technology.
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He declined to say how much PepsiCo spends on the site, but said he pays LinkedIn through an annual contract and will bulk up the contract with additional services such as if PepsiCo has special recruiting initiatives as needed.
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