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...meantime, Greenspan also urged federal regulators to take a hint from the GAO report released last week and try to tighten their supervision of banking operations. The report noted that 22 of the 406 banks that failed in 1988 and 1989 never appeared on the FDIC's problem-bank list. "Banks have been able to hide their nonperforming loans," contends Robert Litan, a banking expert at the Brookings Institution. Such subterfuge would be more difficult if banks were to undergo annual on-site inspections. Until 1956 federal regulations required two such audits a year, but by the 1980s some banks...
...addition, he boasts a record of integrity and openness that is unequalled by either of his rivals. Despite his poor showing of late, Keverian deserves another shot to tighten the fiscal reins on state government...
...impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...House gave speedy 416-0 approval to a pending economic sanctions bill aimed at Iraq. The measure would cut off Iraq's $200 million a year in Export-Import Bank credits and tighten restrictions on U.S. exports that could have military as well as civilian uses...
...rather than hope for the best, the ART should refuse unequivocally to sign the pledge. The organization--and Harvard as well--should say instead that it will tighten its belt until Congress comes to its senses, rather than devalue its reputation...