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...astonishingly, U.S. legislators have been helping keep the red ink flowing. Reason: Congress has withheld from the FSLIC the amounts of cash needed to pay off the depositors of the insolvent S and Ls and thus wind down the problem once and for all. Though the FSLIC has shut down, merged or taken over 108 institutions since the beginning of 1986, the agency has had to allow some of the sickliest thrifts to stay in business through the device of lenient accounting practices. Complains William Black, deputy director of the FSLIC: "We are the only shop that keeps insolvent institutions...
...will ask you to sign-in. Type ANONYMOUS for your user id, and type username for your password. Once connected to the remote system, a couple of commands are necessary to examine and transfer programs. First, LS prints out the directory of files. CD changes the directory level, so that other files can be accessed...
...users should type CD /ibmpc/isib. Typing LS will then provide a list of sub-directories (such as GAMES, DOC, etc.) typing CD and then the sub-directory name will then move the user to that directory. Type GET filename to copy a file you are interested in into your mainframe directory. Typing GET program-library list will give you a list of many of the available programs. Now program-library. list can be typed out with the CAT filename command (similar to TYPE from...
...users connected to SUMEX should type cd info-mac. Any files with a .HQX extension are actual Macintosh files; other listings are directories which can be entered and examined with the CD and LS commands respectively...
Many other institutions have run into difficulty by straying into new lines of business during the recent years of financial deregulation, which enabled S and Ls to cut their reliance on home mortgages and expand into riskier fields such as securities trading, commercial loans and real estate developments. Example: Territory Savings & Loan in Seminole, Okla., became insolvent last year, in part because of more than $10 million in losses on securities transactions. In Boynton Beach, Fla., Sunrise Savings & Loan fueled its growth with risky commercial loans on which it could charge high interest rates. Sunrise was reorganized by the bank...