Word: losses
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Most of Boston College's starting team was on last year's GBL championship squad. "They have a good hitting ball club," coach Park said. The Eagles' sluggers are led by shortstop Paul McKinnion. Their record now stands at 1-2 after a weeeknd loss to the University of Massachusetts...
Also on the Colloquium panel, James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, cited the example of the University of Pennsylvania moving into housing with federal assistance and other subsides that Harvard has been reluctant to apply for. He said this loss of large federal grants seemed due to the Corporation's "aggrevation with red tape" and asked for a "more vigorous search for federal funds...
...Trans World Airlines, depreciation changes converted what would have been an $11.5 million loss from airline operations into a $9.1 million pretax profit. TWA saved $20.6 million in current "costs" simply by spreading the depreciation of most of its planes over twelve or 14 years, instead of eleven years. Other income and credits, including $6.2 million from TWA-owned Hilton International, raised the line's reported net to $21.2 million...
...entitled on purchases of machinery. The board wanted to force businessmen to spread that credit over the life of the machinery instead of taking it entirely in the year of purchase. About 80% of U.S. companies use the latter method; for some, it provides the difference between profit and loss...
After a protracted wrangle with bankers, the board last month demanded that banks include in their reported profits the losses on collectible loans as well as the gains or losses on securities transactions. Until now, banks have excluded both categories from "net operating earnings." As a consequence, says Leonard M. Savoie, executive vice president of the accountants' institute, "the operating results of an entire industry are overstated. When is a loss not a loss? When it happens to a bank...