Word: deposit
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...Since Moscow substantially eased exit rules in late 1989, the wave of immigrants has brought 185,000 Jews to Israel, the most since 1949, when the country was one year old and Holocaust survivors were fleeing the killing grounds of Europe. Before the flood stops, it is expected to deposit 1 million people in Israel (pop. 4.8 million), enough potential voters to change the course of the nation's politics...
...fields. Congress began to put forth its own proposals last week. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 of the nation's 12,400 commercial banks are on the government's watch list of troubled lenders, a level four times as great as during the 1981-82 recession. And the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. expects 180 banks with total assets of $70 billion to fail this year. The cost of closing them will drain more than half the cash now in the FDIC fund that insures bank deposits, leaving a meager $4 billion on hand, unless something is done to shore...
...money in here since 1967," said a tearful depositor who found herself locked out of her credit union. "It's $10,000. It's my life's savings. And now I might lose it all." Sundlun shut the institutions after their private insurer, the Rhode Island Share & Deposit Indemnity Corp., was sapped by the failure of a Providence bank whose president vanished in November with $13 million in funds. While 22 credit unions were scheduled to reopen this week under federal deposit insurance, Sundlun pledged to bail out shuttered lenders that are too weak to qualify for such coverage...
...last week, well past the $41.40-per-bbl. peak that it hit in October. Another serious threat is the possibility of a crisis in the U.S. banking system, which is awash in bad loans and increasingly reluctant to lend more money. L. William Seidman, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, told Congress last week that 1991 is likely to bring the failure of 180 banks with total assets of $70 billion. That would reduce the FDIC fund, which insures bank deposits, from an already weak $9 billion to $4 billion by the end of next year. Seidman urged lawmakers...
...Republic of Singapore." Daily copies of its Asian edition sold in the bustling Southeast Asian city-state, the piece noted, had already < been cut by official edict from 5,000 to just 400. A new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the editorial continued. "We cannot accept the implicit bargain." With that, the newspaper announced that it would no longer sell any copies in Singapore...