He noted that a sharp drop in opera attendance since 9/11 afflicted many institutions.
The catalogue of troubles afflicting the institution (call it Bank X, so as not to punish it for its candour) shows how worrying the outlook has become for big banks, and hence for the real economy.A bank-funding crisis that started on Europe's periphery with worries over Greek, Irish and Spanish banks has now infected the core of the West's financial system.
The conflict between the public's belief in teaching and the academic belief in research makes the central problem of the university unique; there's no other great social institution afflicted by such a radical division between public expectations and professional goals.
The ax has fallen at New York City Ballet, where the ballet master in chief, Peter Martins, has let go 11 members of the corps to help confront the same economic woes that have afflicted most performing arts institutions amid the recession.
Despite feeling the strain of the credit crisis that afflicts most financial institutions, GE continues to profit from other operations boasting a solid $48 billion in cash on their balance sheet.
As a disease that afflicts health care institutions, it is perhaps fitting that the most powerful weapon in the fight against Ebola is not a single drug or vaccine, but instead a particular type of healthcare institution: the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU).
The proposed regulations, which would require banks to increase their capital reserves, are intended to prevent the kind of losses that afflicted the landesbanks and other institutions in Europe and the United States.
All this as economic woes afflict arts institutions everywhere.
The concerns play into longstanding frustrations, dating from to the financial crisis, that top managers are rarely required to take personal responsibility for the problems that afflict financial institutions.
Therefore, institution of appropriate anti-conjunctival therapy in afflicted patients is very important as this would avert further complications and improve the prognosis of infection.
For those religious institutions and houses of prayer that have been afflicted by violence, recovery is defined not just in spiritual terms, but also in economic ones.
