release

1. Environmental: Discharging, disposing, dumping, emitting, emptying, escaping, injecting, leaching, leaking, pouring, pumping, or spilling of one or more hazardous substances into the environment.

2. Legal: (1) Discharge of a property from a claim, lien, or mortgage. (2) Formal document that effects a conveyance. (3) Giving up of a claim, interest, or right. (4) Liberation of a person from custody, demand, restraint, or obligation. (5) Written statement that an obligation or requirement has been satisfied.

In setting compensation, we like to hold out the promise of large carrots, but make sure their delivery is tied directly to results in the area that a manager controls. When capital invested in an operation is significant, we also both charge managers a high rate for incremental capital they employ and credit them at an equally high rate for capital they release.

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