Word: defaulters
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...rule of thumb is to default to a handshake if there is any doubt. You might want to take this advice with a grain of salt, though—my ex-girlfriend broke up with me because I shook her hand every time...
...world. Their greatest assets were their reputation; they valued their pride; they sought opportunity. He grouped his clients into teams and held them commonly responsible for their collective debt each week. Freed from the predatory terms of local moneylenders, these women proved to have lower rates of default than corporate borrowers at the highest end of the financial services spectrum...
Officially, The Crimson, like many other papers, has a default policy of printing publicly available information. This is a dangerous default position, as Duque’s case shows. Instead, college newspapers must consider the merits of printing students’ names on a case-by-case basis...
Instead of relying on a default “print” option, newspapers need to think. The community’s benefit from reporting a student’s name, or exercising free speech for its own sake, does not always supersede the harm it does to the individual. Too much truth can be a decidedly bad thing, and blindly printing students’ names is a naïve way of avoiding a complex moral decision...
...campaign - voting is compulsory [an error occurred while processing this directive] in Brazil so even slums are targeted when polling day approaches. Baiano has taken no money for his electioneering, and explains "this man isn't the best candidate, but I owe him a favor." It's dangerous to default in Brazil's largest city - and in its prisons. Drauzio Varella, a jail doctor, regularly examined the corpses of inmates stabbed for failing to repay debts. In 1995, a body was brought for his inspection. "He was lying face upward," says Drauzio Varella, "and when I turned him over...