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interest-coverage ratio — A ratio that uses historical financial information. sometimes combined with projected financial information, to measure a firm s short term credit strength. This ratio measures the firm s ability to make its required interest payments. In its… … Financial and business terms
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle — An Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, or IGCC, is a power plant using synthetic gas (syngas). This gas is often used to power a gas turbine generator whose waste heat is passed to a steam turbine system (Combined cycle gas… … Wikipedia
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Industrial Review — ▪ 1994 Introduction The period since 1990 was proving a difficult time for the older industrialized economies, which had suffered from prolonged recession at home, and also for the previously centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe… … Universalium