If consumers were in sounder financial shape, the job losses that a slowdown might bring would not be so worrisome.

Part B is in sound fiscal shape because it is financed by general taxes and the premiums paid by beneficiaries.

She said, "We're in sound fiscal shape; we always get a clean opinion from our auditors.

Mr. Hennessy said today that he was leaving the authority in sound financial shape and in "good hands."

Now, six years into the process of crisis containment, the international banking system is in much sounder shape, but many debtor countries are not.

Some municipal hospitals, like Bellevue and Elmhurst, are considered to be in sound administrative shape, but others have had internal problems.

Meanwhile the best interest rates will go only to borrowers in sound financial shape.

The White House boasted that "Medicare is now in the soundest shape it has been since 1975."

But he's in great shape; very healthy and very sound.

The Pataki administration contends that the hospitals are generally in sound financial shape and should be able to handle new reductions.