Financing Municipal Facilities: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, Teil 1

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Seite 17 - It is a major responsibility that can best be met by establishing audit sites at the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Seite 113 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments in 1975".
Seite 27 - Bonds which are rated Baa are considered as medium grade obligations; ie, they are neither highly protected nor poorly secured. Interest payments and principal security appear adequate for the present but certain protective elements may be lacking or may be characteristically unreliable over any great length of time. Such bonds lack outstanding investment characteristics and in fact have speculative characteristics as well.
Seite 27 - B generally lack characteristics of the desirable investment. Assurance of interest and principal payments or of maintenance of other terms of the contract over any long period of time may be small. Caa Bonds which are rated Caa are of poor standing. Such issues may be in default or there may be present elements of danger with respect to principal or interest. Ca Bonds which are rated Ca represent obligations which are speculative in a high degree. Such issues are often in default or have other marked...
Seite 27 - While the various protective elements are likely to change, such changes as can be visualized are most unlikely to impair the fundamentally strong position of such issues. Aa Bonds which are rated Aa are judged to be of high quality by all standards. Together with the Aaa group they comprise what are generally known as high grade bonds. They are rated lower than the best bonds because margins of protection may not be as large as in Aaa securities or fluctuation of protective elements may be of greater...
Seite 25 - While such debts will likely have some quality and protective characteristics, these are outweighed by large uncertainties or major risk exposures to adverse conditions. The rating C is reserved for income bonds on which no interest is being paid. D Debt rated D are in default, and payment of interest and/or repayment of principal is in arrears.
Seite 114 - For purposes of subparagraph (B) (ill), the term 'affiliated group' has the meaning assigned to such term by section 1504 (a) : except that (i) the phrase 'more than 50 percent...
Seite 113 - For purposes of this subparagraph an authorized placement agency is any agency which is authorized by a State, the District of Columbia, a possession of the United States, a foreign country, or a political subdivision of any of the foregoing to place children for adoption.
Seite 26 - ... the only characteristic to which the rating refers. Since ratings involve judgments about the future, on the one hand, and since they are used by investors as a means of protection, on the other, the effort is made when assigning ratings to look at "worst" potentialities in the "visible" future, rather than solely at the past record and the status of the present.
Seite 82 - ... other existing securities of the obligor must have such a public distribution as to protect or insure the marketability of the issue under consideration.

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