The depreciation and amortization items added to earnings are both non-cash accounting entries. Depreciation is used to write down the cost of capital items purchased by a business and amortization is for intangible items.
Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful. For example, Ten years at the same job and now he hates it-familiarity breeds contempt. The idea is much older, but the first recorded use of this expression was in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee (c. 1386).
Posts: n/a. As I recall: The word Tory comes from the Irish toraighe, which I think means highwayman. It was applied as a term of contempt to the supporters of the Stuart line who opposed the Exclusion Bill in the latter part of the seventeenth century.he Whigs took their name, or rather had the name applied to them, from whiggamore, which meant cattle-driver, and was a term of contempt applied to Scots Presbyterians; it was applied to those Whigs who supported Exclusion.