71.   Even for GE, gone are the days when investors accepted at face value what corporate managements told them about their businesses and their books.

72.   Even the brokers tend to close their books and -- assuming they have had a good year -- take off for Europe or the Caribbean.

73.   Fanning believed that WGBH and its producers, like publishers and authors who sell rights to their books, deserved a cut of the action.

74.   Even though the banks make provisions for unrecoverable debt, the bad loans remain on their books, and the distressed property borrowers are still obliged to repay.

75.   Financial institutions often sell receivables to get them off their books.

76.   Financial institutions often sell receivables to investors to get them off their books.

77.   Florida, along with other states and local governments such as Miami, are required by law to balance their books each year.

78.   Following securitization of the debt, the companies wiped those loans off their books.

79.   Few cities of any size have such records on their books.

80.   For if these past owners could have held onto their books, you would not be reading them.