Word: defaulted
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Crimson second-seed Greenhill had a tough first draw, playing former national champion and Princeton first-seed Demer Holleran in the first round. Greenhill not only lost in three, but she also pulled her hamstring, forcing her to default from her next match...
...challenge, Price ruled that the Constitution permits each state to impose its own restrictions on gun ownership. However, even though police may now seize the unregistered guns and charge their owners with a felony carrying up to a year in prison, the NRA may still win a victory by default unless the law is vigorously enforced...
...Cronin said the government will be less effective at collecting its money. He said that existing default rates of 20 to 30 percent might jump to as high as 70 to 80 percent, which would be "damaging to the Republic...
...Default Decade...
Overall, the sales cast further doubt on auction-house techniques. Sotheby's all but ceased lending money to buyers after it was so badly burned by Alan Bond's default on Van Gogh's Irises, bought but not paid for in 1987 for $53.9 million with the help of a $27 million loan from the auction house. But this fall's victim has been the equally controversial system of guarantees, a product of the fierce competition between Sotheby's and Christie's, whereby the auction house contracts to pay the seller a given price for artworks -- whatever the outcome...