Fitch notes that existing bond indentures include limited restrictions on asset sales, thus providing little if any protection to bondholders.

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The FASB heard anguished pleas from some companies that their bond indentures would be technically abrogated if they were forced to capitalize leases on their balance sheets as liabilities.

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