Make sure each series is adequately capitalized.

"The overwhelming majority of banks - and the big majority of large banks - are adequately capitalized," Lawrence Lindsey, special adviser to President Bush, said in an interview.

Cray eventually built one GaAs-based machine in the early 1990s, the Cray-3, but the effort was not adequately capitalized, and the company filed for bankruptcy in 1995.

Banks are generally adequately capitalized, but remain vulnerable due to their overexposure to the cotton sector, the prices of which are subject to significant oscillations.

In the August 1993 agreement, employees had agreed to $886 million in concessions over 39 months to help rescue the airline and insisted on the capital provision to insure that the airline was adequately capitalized.

"The marketplace feels we are not adequately capitalized," he said.

Many large Western mutual funds are restrained from investing in countries without national depositories that are adequately capitalized, and solid financial institutions must commit to offering custodial services.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac say they manage risk very carefully and are adequately capitalized.

Swiss regulators, who say they do not dispute that the bank is adequately capitalized, took the unusual step after reports emerged that a group of banks had given the Ebner group a one-year extension to repay its debts.

But credit union officials say their fund is adequately capitalized.