Word: debts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an Atlanta real estate developer leading a luxurious life, complete with antebellum plantation and trophy wife. Croker is struggling, though, to escape the half-billion dollar debt he has accumulated through failed developments. Meanwhile, when a wealthy white family accuses a black football star of rape, Atlanta's latent racial tensions threaten to erupt chaotically to the surface. As opposing forces vie for Charlie's assets and his dignity, an unemployed California factory worker rides an almost supernatural tide of events into the heart of Atlanta, interjecting an unknown variable into the literary equation...
...which the fairy tale turned into a very bad dream. Just four years later, in 1994, Seaboard phased out the plant and moved its hog-slaughtering operations to another town 800 miles away, which came up with an even larger corporate-welfare package. Albert Lea was left saddled with debt, higher utility bills and an abandoned slaughterhouse. The entire episode, says City Manager Paul Sparks, was a "disaster...
Giselle Lopez, 17, of New York City, racked up $2,000 in debt on her first credit card. Her parents refused to pay, so Giselle got a job to pay it off slowly herself. "Now, every time I use it, I know that it comes from my own pocket," Giselle says. "That gives me a sense of responsibility for my actions...
...retribution; a system in which the murderer suffers the same penalty as the shoplifter cannot be just. If used at all, disenfranchisement should at least be restricted to time spent in prison, so that ex-offenders would be restored to full citizenship once their debt to society is paid...
Hampton also pointed to PBHA's debt as a reason to elect him treasurer. He suggested he would be able to raise even more than the $6 million capital campaign goal...