Word: underlying
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The board contends that Arthur Young, which later merged with Ernst & Whinney, improperly allowed the thrift to show a pretax profit in 1987 by violating generally accepted accounting principles. The firm, which severed its ties to Lincoln in 1988, denies this. Possible penalties include loss or suspension of license, or...
For the second time in seven years, a financial downdraft swept Continental Airlines into bankruptcy court last week. Faced with rising fuel costs and $2.2 billion of debt incurred under Frank Lorenzo, the airline's expansion- minded former boss, Continental filed for protection while it prepares a repayment plan. "We...
TV viewers in Palm Springs, Calif., had a little problem. Though satellite dishes were the best way to bring in additional channels, several homeowner associations banned the contraptions on the grounds that they are ugly. To the rescue came Under Cover Satellite Systems. The Indio, Calif., firm created dishes in...
The omens were bleak from the start. As talks got under way in Brussels last week in the final round of negotiations on revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 30,000 European and Japanese farmers marched through clouds of tear gas in the city center, destroying property and...
Even by the convoluted standard of North African politics, Deby and Gaddafi are strange bedfellows. As adviser for security and defense under Habre, Deby helped mastermind a series of lightning attacks that drove Gaddafi out of northern Chad in 1983 and again in 1987. But after Habre accused him of...