Word: bankrupts
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There is only one problem with all this rhetoric: it's not true. That's the finding of a TIME investigation based on interviews with those directly involved in the system--judges, lawyers, trustees, bankruptcy professors and the bankrupt themselves--along with an examination of court records across the country and an array of statistical evidence. While lenders do indeed lose money on those who fail to pay their bills, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court maintains no statistics on the types of debt written off--credit cards, medical, personal loans--or the total dollar amount discharged. But whatever that number...
...their money in the film, I didn't see a change in the moral composition of their characters. Essentially, they're never bad people - they're just good people trying to handle their load of cash. Why, then, do you have to punish them by making them go bankrupt...
...buildings planned for the planet's largest cities. This one, in Sao Paulo, is a four-sided, pyramid-shaped structure with Hindu carvings that will surpass the 1,483-ft.-tall Petronas Towers in Malaysia to become the world's tallest skyscraper. Opponents say Sao Paulo, virtually bankrupt as it is, would have to shoulder enormous infrastructure costs, and environmentalists claim the site is dangerously near a floodplain that is awash in the rainy season...
...additional 20 million tons of unwanted fish, seabirds, marine mammals and turtles get thrown overboard, dead. Overfishing has depleted major populations of cod, swordfish, tuna, snapper, grouper and sharks. Instead of sensibly living off nature's interest, many fisheries have mined the wild capital, and famous fishing banks lie bankrupt, including the revered cod grounds of New England and Atlantic Canada...
Conservatives believe that SDI, along with the massive American military buildup in the '80s, was the strategy by which Reagan forced the Soviets to bankrupt themselves, hastening the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The timing of those events, at the end of the Reagan years, disconcerts Reagan's critics. They claim that the Soviet collapse was the result of long years of economic inefficiency and deterioration, and of Gorbachev's loosening of the bolts through glasnost and perestroika...