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...than $100 million in billings from the flight of customers, which include Sears, IBM and Pillsbury. The damages at Saatchi & Saatchi/Ted Bates have totaled more than $300 million; among the clients who canceled accounts were Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble and Warner-Lambert. While both agencies claim that they can absorb those losses without severe stress, the exodus of blue-chip clients has quickly soured Madison Avenue's merger mood...
...federally insured savings and loan associations and savings banks have either been reorganized or forced by the FSLIC to merge with other institutions this year. As the agency reimburses depositors at collapsed savings and loans and pays out large sums to healthy institutions that agree to absorb weaker ones, it is fast running out of funds. FSLIC officials say its reserves will have shrunk by the end of the year to a precariously low $1 billion, down from $4.6 billion at the end of 1985. The General Accounting Office estimates that the FSLIC will need to give out as much...
...Communist nations have agricultural headaches too, but theirs stem from too little production caused mainly by a lack of incentives for farmers. The root problem in the free world is the exact opposite: high price supports and other subsidies have encouraged farmers to grow bigger crops than markets can absorb. In Western Europe, for example, agricultural output has been growing four times as fast as food consumption; in the U.S., farm production has far outpaced the 1% annual population growth...
Hungary is another Communist state where profit can be a virtue. The country's thriving cooperative system leaves some 650,000 farm workers relatively free to make business decisions and to absorb losses or pocket gains. Leader Janos Kadar encourages small private ventures, with results that can be seen across the country. Virtually every Hungarian town boasts restaurants with tempting food and smooth service, clothes stores with high- fashion wear and bustling streets filled with numerous shops...
...giant pool of water. If the primary cooling system on PIUS fails, pool water floods and cools the core. A reactor being developed by General Electric, Rockwell International and Argonne National Laboratory is cooled directly by submersion in a pool, except that the liquid is molten sodium, which can absorb far more heat than can water before boiling away. Still, should some accident -- an earthquake, for example -- empty the pool, these reactors could conceivably melt...