badly underfunded

Its pension and retiree health plans were badly underfunded even before the stock market tumbled.

Third, tropical disease research is badly underfunded.

Challengers to New York legislators are remarkably rare, and almost always badly underfunded.

The act is also badly underfunded, damaging the Interior Department's ability to design recovery programs and, if necessary, to buy private land.

Their colony was badly underfunded.

"It's an economic climate that's exacerbating tensions and divisions, in an education environment that's badly underfunded in the first place."

The FDIC is badly underfunded; on some estimates, it is technically insolvent.

With the F.S.L.I.C. badly underfunded and savings industry problems continuing to mount, no one quite knows what will happen to the 50 institutions still in the program.

He attributed the sharp increase in claims to the bankruptcies of big companies - like LTV, Trans World Airlines and Polaroid - with badly underfunded pension plans.

Many of these works are in a poor state of conservation and would benefit, according to Mr Thompson, from a transfer into fresh ownership (probably private rather than public, as Indian national museums are currently badly underfunded).

According to Janes the navy is badly underfunded and much of its equipment is in need of maintenance; as a consequence it is scarcely able to carry out its tasks, with operations often delayed or cancelled.

Appointed a Regular Army Colonel in the 1920s, he was one of the top "career" officers in the establishment during a time when America's Army was badly underfunded and ranked 16th in the world.

Even though the premium almost doubled last year, it has not been enough to cover the billions of dollars in liabilities the corporation has had to absorb from such beleaguered steelmakers as LTV and Wheeling-Pittsburgh, which terminated their badly underfunded plans.

For example, Mr. Bixby said, "The increase in the Social Security benefits is dedicated to go to the Medicare Part A trust fund, and if you repeal that, you open up a giant hole in Medicare's finances, which are already badly underfunded."