Word: defaulted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carron called Bradley's chances for winning the Democratic nomination "absolutely incredible," saying he feels that as the primaries get closer, voters will begin thinking about the issues rather than simply choosing Gore as a default candidate...
Hackers like an easy target, and computers hooked up to cable modems are potentially the lowest-hanging fruit of all. Especially if they're running Windows. For reasons known only to itself, Microsoft makes its operating system default to friendly mode, entirely open to network sharing. This means when you hook your brand-new PC up to your brand-new cable modem, you unwittingly become a node on a massive network whose members can come and look around your hard drive, perhaps download your financial records...
...when an irregular word is still fresh in the mind, it is fragile. If a child's memory cannot cough up held quickly enough, he or she adds -ed by default and says holded instead...
ARRESTED. GIANCARLO PARRETTI, 58, fugitive financier; near Orvieto, Italy. Parretti, whose $1.3 billion takeover of MGM in 1990 and subsequent default on an $888 million loan nearly destroyed the company, fled the U.S. in 1996 after being convicted of perjury and evidence tampering...
...future benefits, and the size of the trust fund might influence its decision whether to do so. But neither the trust fund's size nor what the money is invested in is affected in any way by the government's non-Social Security budget. If the government were to default on its bonds, the trust fund would suffer a loss and (though there is no necessary legal connection) payments might have to be reduced. And a larger government deficit makes a default more likely. But the chance of the government's defaulting either on its bonds or its Social Security...