Word: receivership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that Israel is going into political receivership on that count," Wisse said. "If you ask someone else to be the guarantor of your security, then basically you're going into political receivership...
Mutual-fund regulations prohibit the kind of leverage that drove Long Term Capital into receivership. The Securities and Exchange Commission also makes mutual funds disclose details of their investments. There are few such restrictions on hedge funds--or protections for their investors--except that the funds may not accept investors with less than $1 million in liquid assets...
CHELSEA, Mass.--Three years ago this city hidden among the oil tanks and container yards of Boston's inner harbor seemed to be stumbling through darkness as it tried to pull itself out of receivership...
Harvard waited too long to respond contemporary changes; no younger faculty of Bloom's age came remotely near the education and superb scholarship of Douglas Bush, Harry Levin and Walter Jackson Bate, Luminaries of Harvard's recent past. The English department nearly went into receivership. Ten years after I entered grad school, Harvard's reputation in literature hit rock bottom...
Hartford is so broke that it nearly went into receivership. Its horrendously underfunded educational system has been the subject of a lawsuit challenging unfair state educational aid formulas. The state was willing to resist calls to invest more in Hartford's crumbling educational infrastructure, but now is all too happy to jump in with a blank check to attract a football team. Is this prudent government, or just sports mania addling the already small brains of public officials...