The judiciary has allowed the "deep- pockets" theory to prevail: Companies with only the most distant, tangential connection to a case have been hit with huge liability judgments.
People want to get money back, fine go after the truly deep-pockets who caused this mess: Ackman, Soros, Einhorn, Paulson, Chanos, and the other shorts who abused mark-to-market and naked short selling.
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Depending upon your viewpoint, the grandly named Mass Torts Made Perfect, a recent confab of plaintiff lawyers in Las Vegas, (1) illustrates America's greatness as a nation with the rule of law or (2) shows the appalling consequences of deep-pockets liability.
Goldman is one of the few American financial firms whose balance sheet has largely escaped the problems of the American housing market. (See "Goldman Only Brushed By The Credit Crunch") It may want to buy some or all of Wachovia itself, but if not, the firm could at least help it craft a deal or find a deep-pockets investor.
Start-ups are risky, but a wise job-seeker would do some homework to discover if a prospective employer is backed by patient investors with deep pockets and industry know-how.
All this competition will ensure that home-grown sites keep innovating - while the deep pockets of both YouTube and MySpace will mean more choice for web-surfers.
Despite not winning a English league title since 1968, Manchester City moved up the earnings rankings from 10th to third this year -- largely thanks to the oil-rich deep pockets of owner Sheikh Mansour.
Its biggest competitor (LivingSocial) is nearly out of business and other would-be players with deep pockets (Amazon and Google) have lost most of their interest in doing much here.
Google certainly has pockets deep enough to trick out self-driving cars with any kind of pricey gear, but researchers at the University of Oxford have begun testing a solution that aims to keep things affordable.
The thinking is that these investors have the experience and deep enough pockets to withstand losses, given that start-ups have a high failure rate.
After all, Amazon had been deeply discounting physical books for years, threatening brick-and-mortar shops of all sizes with its deep pockets.
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The capital required is huge, the number of firms with deep enough pockets very small, and the memory of the earlier gas-price collapse induced by America's deregulation is fresh.
As Apple Insider notes, the computer is one of six that's accounted for out of 50 that are likely still out there -- ensuring these will only remain for folks with deep pockets indeed.
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"We need somebody with very deep pockets that understand this upfront that can continue these type of losses--- at least for the first few years until we can find something to make the island valuable again, " the island's state senator J.
Given that the nomination will be sewn up in March, when big states such as California, New York, Florida and Texas all hold their primaries, how can any candidates other than Mr Bush, with his war-chest, and Mr Forbes, with his deep pockets, survive beyond spring?
The union has refused to give Chrysler the same health care concessions it gave General Motors and Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ), for instance, because of the deep pockets of its German parent company.
Now a new owner with deep pockets and a proven track record is trying again, promising to take on Harley-Davidson in the lucrative motorcycling-as-a-lifestyle market.
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Despite Pegula's deep pockets, Black explained that the decision was made as part of the franchise's league-wide obligation to raise revenue coming out of a lockout-shortened season.
In the Valdez incident, the company responsible was a giant multinational with deep pockets and an interest in keeping on the right side of the American government and the oil-rich state of Alaska.
The homes themselves typically span 10, 000 square feet-plus and pack in the kind of amenities produced when expansive imaginations meet bottomlessly deep pockets.
The other option: Range gets bought out entirely by a big player with deep enough pockets to drill as much as it wants and a desire to catch up with post XTO-merger ExxonMobil in shale plays.
They were thoroughly miserable when they toured here two years ago - I still have vivid memories of Chris Gayle standing at Chester-le-Street, frozen to the spot at first slip with his hands thrust deep into his pockets.
Mr Robertson and his crew came to believe a pipe-dream: the preservation of their independence with the chance to dip into Dresdner's deep pockets whenever they needed to.
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