71.   IBRA also might eventually be overloaded with too many ailing banks for which it will not have enough qualified managers.

72.   In South Korea, the IMF sought to close down all ailing banks while the Government wished to rescue the system through mergers.

73.   In the long term, the merger is seen as good news for an ailing bank industry in dire need of streamlining and modernization.

74.   Injecting liquidity to ailing banks without first assessing their assets and their prospective business viability amounts to throwing good money after bad at great expense to the taxpayer.

75.   Its most recent major move came in August when it announced a comprehensive restructuring plan for ailing banks.

76.   Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi put the ailing bank under state control on Sunday after it had been declared insolvent.

77.   Japanese stock prices plunged as steeply Thursday as they had gained the previous day, as investors began to question government plans to rescue ailing banks.

78.   Lee said South Korea will sell another ailing bank owned by the government, Seoulbank, to foreigners in January.

79.   Malaysia last year created special mechanisms to pump money to prop up the ailing banks.

80.   Many financial stocks rose after the government gave preliminary approval on Friday for ailing banks to receive a second wave of public funds to beef up their operations.