Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unaware of what the carrying charges for it will amount to. California, Illinois and Ohio, which have the highest bankruptcy rates in the country, are no strangers to the shyster who tells a beleaguered debtor: "Don't worry about a thing, buddy. I can get you declared a bankrupt for $75, and you can pay me on time. Now what you want to do is to go out and run up $5,000 in debts, which we'll get the court to forgive...
That unity is based in large part on the Franco-German reconciliation. In 1945, Germany was a disarmed and bankrupt country. The Western zones were permitted to rearm only within the bounds of NATO, which was designed partly to restrain any possible West German hopes of regaining the Eastern zones and the Oder-Neisse territories by force. Without tying Bonn into NATO, the U.S. would never have permitted German rearmament. Similarly, the Common Market is designed partly to contain West Germany's prodigious economic growth. And the Franco-German Pact, which reverses several hundred years of history, is the strongest...
...deficit to build our future strength?" If our family pursued such a debt-ridden budgetary policy, it would soon be bankrupt and in disrepute. What is now a proud, self-supporting unit would sicken...
...long wait for the jury, he strutted around the corridors and delivered himself of some cocky, colorful opinions. "These FBI agents," harangued Hoffa, "are all stool pigeons. A bunch of rats and stool pigeons. Give one of them a local with 10,000 members and he'd be bankrupt in three years. If it wasn't for the taxpayers, they'd starve to death...
...school after the eighth grade, followed his father's trade and became a Socialist after reading Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. He ran for mayor nine times before he finally made the grade in 1933. Bridgeport, a drab industrial city on Long Island Sound, was then nearly bankrupt. McLevy fought school expansion, kept city salaries low (his own never topped $9,300), held down taxes as long as he could. Much of the city's business was outlined only in his own scribbled notes, but under his regime Bridgeport achieved a triple-A credit rating...