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...centers of fomenting social unrest. "All our litigation is achieving is due process of law. It's something so primitive I'm embarrassed to talk about it in a civilized society." For instance, he says, an auto dealer can repossess a car on which he claims there is a default of payments without even notifying the owner. "All we're asking is that the consumer be given a chance to make his case," he explains...
...committee's chairman than its ranking Democrat. Thus he was long able to maintain a high degree of bipartisanship. In this situation, party leadership on a day-to-day basis fell to the senior Democrat, Harold Donohue of Massachusetts. But he is 73 and feeling his age. By default, Jack Brooks of Texas, 51, became a central figure on the Democratic side...
European bankers worry that some day one government, most likely Italy's, will default on paying interest on its loans, putting several banks under and setting off a Continent-wide banking panic. Even if that is avoided, the most strapped nations will be sorely tempted to cut their imports of nonpetroleum goods so that they can save cash to pay for the oil, a strategy that could cripple world trade. Italy in April did in fact clamp restrictions on many non-oil imports, to the anger of its eight partners in the European Common Market, who fortunately...
...Aguchaks, who live in a remote Eskimo village 500 miles away. Though they received the notice, the Aguchaks had neither the time nor money to make the $186 overnight air trip that was necessary to get to court. When they failed to appear to answer the summons, a default judgment was entered against them, and that seemed to be that...
...been. Perhaps the collection of show posters on his bedroom wall; or a dozen or so friends, most sharing and reinforcing the same bleak outlook. It certainly wasn't a triumph of learning, since Steven's welcome to the "society of educated men" was a contest won by default...