Word: bankrupter
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...land, Adams' positions and records are even firmer. It was he who in 1970 did most to push through the legislation creating Amtrak as a first step in reviving the nation's dying railroads. In 1973 he was the primary author of the Conrail plan, merging the bankrupt Penn Central and other roads into a Northeastern network. He favors continued regulation of the trucking industry and−most important to big-city dwellers−he believes in improvements in mass transit...
Wherever you go, however you go, the important thing is to enjoy yourself at a sport that doesn't require ten-dollar lift tickets, two hour rides in search of "skiable snow," or equipment that would bankrupt the U.S. Treasury...
...daily in multiples of 500; the payoff is 500 to 1 in cash, up to $600. It is a more honest game than the numbers rackets. Winners are always paid, which is not always the case on the streets. Illegal numbers banks have been known to go bankrupt when too many bettors hit the right number...
...been drastically reduced. It was hardly a reassuring sign for the government, as it awaited the terms of a deal still being pieced together in London with representatives of the International Monetary Fund. The negotiations involve terms for a $3.9 billion loan that is to help tide over nearly bankrupt Britain until North Sea oil revenues relieve the current balance of payments crisis. Callaghan will probably have to promise further national belt tightening to gain the IMF credits-meaning, in all likelihood, an equally tight check on his government's freedom of action in the Commons...
...owes $2.9 billion, $800 million of which is due private lenders in the U.S., Europe and Japan. But instead of achieving steady growth, Zaïre became a textbook example of how a Third World nation can dig itself into an economic hole. Today the country is all but bankrupt; it has fallen badly behind in repaying its debts. Manhattan's Citibank and other creditor banks have agreed to arrange a new $250 million loan, but first they imposed tough conditions under which Mobutu will in effect be forced to control his country's economy strictly, under...