Word: defaulters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fallout from a record default spreads from Washington State to Wall Street...
...finally arrived last week for the Washington Public Power Supply System. D for default. D for debacle. With its coffers almost empty, WPPSS or Whoops, as everyone now calls the agency, formally declared that it could not repay $2.25 billion in bonds used to finance partial construction of two now abandoned nuclear power plants in Washington State. It is by far the largest municipal bond default in U.S. history, and the damage is incalculable. The fiasco has robbed thousands of investors of their savings, shaken confidence in the municipal bond market, angered and humiliated the people of the Northwest, tarnished...
After the President's speech, IMF officials praised his new austerity program. At week's end Brazil and the IMF negotiators were putting the final touches on a preliminary agreement clearing the way for additional loans that would save the country from default. Backing down from its earlier demand, the BIS announced that it could wait for its $400 million until Brazil had new IMF money. Confident that the immediate financial crisis was past, Figueiredo jetted away to keep his doctor's appointment...
...other tests, the physician gradually determines that the patient has not suffered a series of small strokes, does not have Parkinson's disease, a brain tumor, depression, an adverse drug reaction or any other possible cause of dementia. If all tests are negative, AD is diagnosed by default. This conclusion may be further verified with psychological tests...
...court 15 ft. into the sky, across a fence and into the audience. He also lost, owing to a warning for "racquet abuse," a point's deduction for "an audible obscenity" and a delay of game penalty that cost him a tie breaker and a set. "You cannot default the No. 1 or No. 2 seed because they are the life of the tournament," complained Pfister afterward. "Tournaments don't need a guy like...