Word: sheet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FSLIC'S list of "problem cases" has jumped from 79 to 246. Last year the agency saved eleven insolvent S and Ls by ar ranging shotgun mergers with healthier institutions. These rescue operations cost the agency $1.3 billion out of its $6.5 billion reserve fund. The bal ance sheet at Economy Savings, however, was apparently so dismal that no takers could be found...
...pushing hard for consistency. One major concern at the NATO meeting was what Weinberger - regarded by Europeans as a loose cannon - would do and say at a gathering this week of the Atlantic Alliance's defense ministers. Said one aide: "Haig wants Weinberger to sing from the same sheet music...
...dermis, is a mixture of a protein from cowhide and a complex carbohydrate derived from shark cartilage. When mixed with an acidic solution, the two ingredients become short white fibers. Freeze-dried and vacuum treated to remove moisture, the fibers form a light and highly porous white sheet of material, which is placed in an oven at a high temperature. The topmost layer, equivalent to the epidermis, is made by bonding a viscous plastic onto the cowhide-shark sheet. The completed skin is then freeze-dried and stored in sterile, closed containers at room temperature...
...more than $5 billion; Alcoa's plunges from $470 million to $ 144 million. Robert Hampton III, a Price Waterhouse senior partner, says that a survey of 83 companies using inflation accounting last year showed that real profits were about 40% less than those reported on the normal balance sheet. Another survey, by Arthur Young & Co., revealed after adjustments for inflation that airlines, railroads and tire and rubber companies actually lost money. High-technology companies like IBM and Intel were the only sector of U.S. industry to do better on an inflation-adjusted basis. Reason...
Hofmann showed a photocopy of the single sheet of blue-lined white paper to Mormon Church Archivist Donald Schmidt, who displayed only mild interest. Hofmann incorrectly assumed that the church already had a copy. But when he consulted a historian the Missouri church, separate the ways. Utah establishment suddenly decided to acquire it from the dealer in exchange for other historic books and papers. Last week, as word of the document's existence finally be came public, officials of the two rival churches made a surprise announcement: the Smith blessing was being turned over to the Reorganized Church...