Word: deadbeat
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...North Korea is indeed serious about reform, it will begin by rebuilding its decimated manufacturing sector. The country needs to export goods if it is to earn hard currency to pay for the food and fertilizer it cannot produce itself. Cutting off subsidies to deadbeat factories is just a first step, and there is no evidence the government has a blueprint for moving further. "They aren't scrapping the socialist system," says Koh Hyun Wook, an expert on North Korea at Kyungnam University near Pusan. "These are makeshift moves to overcome the current economic crisis...
...some stiff brooming fast it could face "economic upheaval." In the Japanese context the meaning was clear: a loss of confidence, bank runs, financial collapse. Tokyo's greatest hope is a stiff restructuring of banks - one that keeps them afloat while at the same time forces them to drop deadbeat creditors - that doesn't freak out savers...
...plays Shaun’s disapproving and unaffectionate father; and Lily Tomlin (Tea With Mussolini) plays the incompetent guidance counselor. And these are just a few of the esteemed names that grace the supporting cast. Jack Black (Shallow Hal) is an absolute riot as Lance, Shaun’s deadbeat but caring brother, and Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters) gives a memorable performance as the Stanford admissions officer who has an accidental run-in with a dose of ecstasy...
...offended by someone's procreating and making it an offense. In April, Texas District Judge J. Manuel Banales ordered Torres not to have sex with anyone, minor or adult, until he married--or "you will go to prison for life." He expressed a fear that Torres would be a deadbeat dad. The Wisconsin Supreme Court was marginally more lenient with Oakley last week, merely sustaining a lower-court ruling that would jail him for eight years if he fathered another child without proving he could support his entire brood...
Laws against deadbeat parents have toughened, but scofflaws still owe $11 billion a year, and anger at chronic offenders is growing. Oakley owes $25,000, despite civil citations and garnishments. The Wisconsin court's four-person majority (all male) focused on his behavior. Wrote Justice William Bablitch: "It is overwhelmingly obvious that any child he fathers will be doomed to a future of neglect, abuse or worse...