The state's banking commissioner, Marlin S. Jackson, ordered the bank to stop making imprudent loans.

Investors who had made imprudent loans often escaped with handsome profits.

But a bailout that holds some foreign investors harmless suggests that they can make imprudent loans with impunity.

Continuation of the requirement that banks make imprudent loans?

This year the Labor Department sued the union executive, calling the $6 million loan imprudent.

The Labor Department also said that the fund had made an imprudent $6 million loan in 1992 for a real estate development company controlled by Mr. McAuliffe.

Since the lenders knew the Government would cover any losses, however imprudent the loan, they had no reason to be prudent.

Conflict: The bank could then make imprudent loans to Company X to keep it from failing.

George was making a lot of imprudent loans.

But some recent academic research has suggested that imprudent loans, rather than bad bets on stocks, caused the widespread bank failures of the Depression.