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...when it's all over? How about when it's been over for two weeks, and the thank-you's have all found their way into loyal supporters' mailboxes; when the campaign literature and buttons are packed up in boxes; when the hopeful and cheery slogans begin to sour...
While both squads grumbled over what could've been, the Wildcats were the ones that watched the sweet "W" turn sour. The Crimson overcame UNH's first-half offensive dominance and 1-0 lead to knot the score in the second half and force overtime...
...Sour grapes. Too little too late," Florida Chancellor Charles Reed said last week. "They do good science at MIT but on this I don't think that they have paid as much attention to it as they needed...
That leaves Japanese banks in a precarious spot: they could suffer losses on their extensive securities holdings just when other major assets -- loans to overleveraged property developers -- sour. In Japan real estate can be used as collateral to buy stocks, and vice versa -- a cozy arrangement until values crumble. If losses were to mount, banks would be forced to cut their loans to businesses. Firms would in turn reduce capital spending, and a recession would soon be under...
...deep slump could inflict heavy damage on overleveraged companies and troubled banks whose books are already filled with junk bonds and sour real estate loans. According to Veribanc, a Massachusetts-based firm that rates banks and S&Ls, bad loans at U.S. banks rose a sharp 7.5%, to $48.6 billion, in the first quarter of 1990. Overall, nearly 1,400 banks, or about 11% of the U.S. total, lost money in the first quarter. That represented an alarming jump of nearly 20% over the same period a year...