Word: default
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About 30 percent of the projects that have received HUD funding since the program was launched in 1983 are in default, the department said. Many were built in areas where there was not a sufficient shortage in housing for the elderly to support the projects, officials added...
...Cavazos has brought a willingness to listen and a less combative tone than we've had in the past," says Wilmer Cody, Louisiana's superintendent of education. "It's a style that's needed right now." Specifically, Cavazos acted to change a much criticized policy on federal student-loan defaults, projected to reach $1.8 billion this year. Bennett had made the draconian proposal to bar all schools with default rates of 20% or higher from participating in the program, but Cavazos scrapped that plan shortly after taking office. Later this month, after reviewing public comment about the problem...
...first period, which saw Cole facing a five-point deficit, Peckham withdrew Cole to give Brown a six-point win by default...
...staff, Baker once said he didn't need to have a vision "because the guy down the hall ((Reagan)) has one. I'm more interested in the game than in philosophy." With the new guy in the Oval Office equally at sea, the matter may fall to Baker by default...
...Gone, each won the New York Drama Critics Circle prize as best play of the year. The fact that producers are not shoving each other in haste to bring Piano Lesson to Broadway, especially in a season when the Tony Awards are likely to be given to mediocrities by default, underscores the all but defunct place of serious drama in our commercial theater...