Word: bankrupter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prices with the same horror that they once reserved for ever rising energy costs. A steep price drop could crush an ailing oil exporter like Mexico, which has borrowed billions from international banks and is already in the midst of an economic crisis. Sharply lower prices would also bankrupt some existing high-cost exploration and production ventures...
...President told his countrymen that "Mexico is undergoing a grave crisis." He noted that unemployment was high (between 10% and 15%) and that inflation would reach almost 100% this year. De la Madrid expressed concern about the "mistrust and pessimism" engulfing the country. "We are not a defeated or bankrupt nation," he said. "I will not allow our homeland to crumble away through our fingers...
...world's largest 1982 purchaser of new aircraft. The airline plans to buy nine more 737s in 1983. Another sign of Piedmont's health in a troubled industry: in its cockpits now are 100 former Braniff pilots who lost their jobs when that airline went bankrupt last...
...proportion of the federal budget it consumes has doubled. So far, shuffling money between Medicare, disability insurance, and Social Security has kept the latter program afloat. But by mid-1983, if not extended, the law allowing such tactics will expire. And by 1984, all three funds will be bankrupt. Indeed, the system is projected to run a cumulative deficit of more that $150 billion in the next seven years...
...president of Nasson, a liberal arts college in Maine with an enrollment of 380, announced earlier this week that unless the college drastically reworked its financial system, the school would go bankrupt under the federal bankrupt code before the end of this term...