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...forced by the FSLIC to merge with other institutions this year. As the agency reimburses depositors at collapsed savings and loans and pays out large sums to healthy institutions that agree to absorb weaker ones, it is fast running out of funds. FSLIC officials say its reserves will have shrunk by the end of the year to a precariously low $1 billion, down from $4.6 billion at the end of 1985. The General Accounting Office estimates that the FSLIC will need to give out as much as $22 billion in financial assistance during the next five years...
Burnes was on a hot streak, winning four of the first five races in the A division. With Wagner placing consistently in the top five of the B division, Harvard had an hefty 20-point lead by Saturday afternoon. However, the lead shrunk to six points by the end of the first...
...planned, eight airlines will control more than 87% of the U.S. passenger market (see chart). The rush of new entries into the passenger business that began with airline deregulation in 1978 has long since peaked: from a high of 123 certified passenger carriers in 1984, the field has now shrunk to 96. Enthusiasm for new airline ventures among financial backers has dropped dramatically. Says Geoff Crowley, a senior vice president of Presidential Airways, a year-old low-fare carrier based in Washington: "We wouldn't be able to get started now. Wall Street is casting too questioning...
...limit of 1,000 students in each incoming class and then urged his admissions officials to seek a broad geographical distribution -- that is, to accept more students from Southern and Western states where comparatively few Jews lived. By the time Lowell retired in 1933, the proportion of Jews had shrunk...
...salary of $400. Says he: "There've been good times at the mill in the past. We'll just have to hope for better times up the road." For many steelworkers, whose numbers have already declined from 700,000 in 1978 to 140,000 today as the industry has shrunk, those times may prove to be painfully beyond reach...