Word: defaulted
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Teenagers who do not want to talk to their parents often find a way to avoid * it: they go before a judge, or they go out of state; they wait until their condition becomes obvious and have a dangerous, second-trimester abortion; or they have a baby by default. Justice Thurgood Marshall described the dilemma in his dissent in the Minnesota case: "This scheme forces a young woman in an already dire situation to choose between two fundamentally unacceptable alternatives: notifying a possibly dictatorial or even abusive parent or justifying her profoundly personal decision in an intimidating judicial proceeding...
...plot to force Detroit to default on its payments in order to foreclose on the city, have engineered a police strike. As a result, futuristic Detroit, already mired in urban blight, falls prey to a powerful new drug called Nuke, and the increase in crime...
...showed his bankers last week that he can still play a mean game of chicken. The embattled developer disclosed that he failed to pay at least $30 million that was due Friday on bonds issued by his Trump Castle casino in Atlantic City. His missed payment could lead to default, which in turn could push all or part of Trump's holdings into bankruptcy. He knows his bankers want to avoid that, since it could leave them with a lot of hard-to-sell real estate in New York and New Jersey...
...Default would be virtually impossible, since the payments would be duducted along with income taxes and Social Security taxes...
Kohl became chancellor in 1982 largely by default, after Kohl's main competitior, the late Franz Joseph Strauss, had discredited himself as a viable candidate following his defeat in the 1980 election. Kohl was fortunate enough to be the opposition leader when the governing socialist-liberal coalition under Helmut Schmidt crumbled...