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...most controversial provision is that thrifts would no longer be allowed to count as capital an intangible asset known as "goodwill." Typically, this comes into play when an acquirer buys an ailing S & L whose liabilities exceed its assets; the difference is called goodwill. So far, regulators have allowed S & L buyers to count goodwill as capital in exchange for taking the failed thrift out of the Government's hands. But having no capital of their own at stake enabled some thrift owners to make risky and often fraudulent loans without sufficient cash to back them up. Said New York...
...persistent criticism of the Bush plan is that it fails to provide as much money for the bailout as will eventually be needed. By some estimates, the cost of cleaning up the industry could exceed $300 billion over 30 years, with taxpayers picking up two-thirds of the bill. The FHLBB reported last week that the 2,938 Government-insured thrifts in the U.S. posted losses of $3.4 billion during the first quarter of the year. Observes Alex Sheshunoff, an industry analyst: "There's a lot more bad news to come." In the S & L industry, unfortunately, the most pessimistic...
...council was counting on a sell-out show to earn back Vega's hefty fee. But the ROTC affair prevented council members from publicizing the event, and when the concert fell far short of a sell-out, the council suffered losses that may exceed...
...Each dormitory may vote to have up to but not exceed twenty-five parietal hours per week...
...suppose ultimately...there will have to be some sort of resolution about what you do about library space in an age when the books being produced by the publishers exceed any rational ability to provide space for them," Maher said...