But the plan's economic underpinnings may stand on shaky ground.

But plural wives weren't dependent on one man; often living apart, they had their own economic underpinnings.

Containing contingency fees in this way would certainly shake the economic underpinnings of liability law.

The Administration's rescue plan appears to be politically sound, but the plan's economic underpinnings may be shakier.

There are concerns that the Web could cut into television audiences and undermine the economic underpinnings of the Olympic movement.

But the confrontation in the gulf is having a devastating impact on the economic underpinnings of this country of 3.5 million people.

The economic underpinnings of Enron began to become unhinged in 1998.

I understood it at the time and now I understand some of the cultural and economic underpinnings, yes?

The old economic underpinnings were gone and nothing new seemed to be on the horizon.

In the meantime, by rushing from mass to niche programming, they were whittling away the economic underpinnings of their business.