The reason is that, in the fund-management business, revenues and costs easily get out of line when markets head down.
And, as with stocks, real estate multiples can get out of line.
Their average tenure has declined from ten years in the 1970s to six years today, and boards are becoming ever more likely to sack bosses if they get out of line, particularly in Europe.
Third, the fixed exchange rate can get badly out of line with those of trading partners.
There may be more to the criticism that the agencies do not like their ratings to get too far out of line with one another.
New York (CNN) -- Get too far out of line aboard an international flight and you could be restrained in your seat with zip ties and duct tape.
"This is an industry where if you get your costs out of line and business is not so good, you're dead, " says Sam Peltzman, a University of Chicago business school economics professor who studies labor and the airline industry.
"This is an industry where if you get your costs out of line and business is not so good, you're dead, " says Sam Peltzman, an economics professor at the University of Chicago business school who studies labor and the airline industry.
Companies like Fluor and KBR get paid for engineering down the line, from the facilities to get the gas out of the ground, to the gas-to-liquids operations necessary to transport the product, to the manufacturing plants around the world designed to run off the product.
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It can start out behind and still get its line of smart phones in front of more people first.
If President-elect Obama wants to be a hero and get credit for pulling the economy out of the ditch, he has to get capital off the strike line.
The country still faces a productivity crisis and it will take years to get a quarter of its population out of the jobs line and back into the workforce.
Bottom line: governments need to get out ahead of these problems, and work on framing risks to the public in a responsible way.
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Investment banks fight tooth and nail to get placement in the top line of the listing, and then poke eyes out to be placed on the left.
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In the new tradition of fast-casual dining, you get on line (which often spills out into the street) to order and the food is brought to you at large communal tables.
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And the bottom line is the central bankers have a huge interest in not letting things get out of hand here.
Capello sought to get the best out of Liverpool's influential captain and Chelsea's Frank Lampard in the same line-up, a conundrum that has dogged his predecessors in the England job.
When a Downing Street advisor points out that loneliness is probably more dangerous to our health in retirement than smoking, there are plenty who immediately assume that the advice is part of some dastardly statist plot to get pensioners out of their one-bed flats to sweat their final years away on a factory production line - see below for one example.
Ireland gathered but O'Gara was unable to get much distance on his touch-finder and Wales launched another series of forays from the line-out.
We struggled a bit in the line-out and we couldn't get any platform, but managed to get hold of the ball in the second half and it was great to score a try.
Ninety-five straight quarters of profits is nothing to sneeze at in any line of business, but in the financial industry, where many firms were lucky to get out of the 2008 crisis in one piece, losses have been a frequent occurrence at many firms for the past few years.
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