Word: solvently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Advertisements are necessary to keep television stations solvent so that they can broadcast more hockey games. But creating commercial breaks in ordinarily fluid games is artificial and just plain annoying. And that reduces sports to one long excuse for a commercial...
...Goldstine has managed to keep the Seriesfinancially solvent, by securing funding from eachfilm's studio. Touchstone Films, a subsidiary ofThe Walt Disney Company, is underwriting tonight'sevent...
...Texas Republican Bill Clements won back his office from Mark White, the Democrat who had defeated him four years ago. Texas, moreover, suffers heavily from depressed oil prices, and White had the courage -- some might say the foolhardiness -- to raise taxes twice in an attempt to keep his state solvent. Alabama's Democrats went through such a bloodletting to determine the winner of their primary that Republican Guy Hunt benefited from the fratricide...
...moment, though, the FSLIC is on its own, and the agency has taken several steps in its struggle to stay solvent. For one thing, it has raised the charges it levies on the thrift industry. Besides the basic premiums of $780 million, the agency will assess the industry an additional $1 billion this year. In a more controversial vein, the agency rules governing accounting methods enable thrift institutions to appear stronger than they actually are. For example, S and Ls can stretch out the reporting of losses from mortgage sales. Moreover, 122 S and Ls now count among their assets...
Italy's tainted-wine scandal con- tinued to spread in ugly fashion last week. More than five weeks after a number of vintners were first discovered to be adulterating their low-priced table wines with methyl alcohol, which is more commonly used as a paint solvent, at least 22 Italians had died and about 90 others were hospitalized after drinking the contaminated product. As the death toll rose, the Italian government listed some 300 labels as suspect, prompting worldwide concern and threatening the country's $953 million wine-export trade...