Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also set out to try to recover some of the millions already pocketed. The charters of the apartment-building corporations formed under 608 prohibit unearned income (i.e., windfalls) from being handed out to shareholders, said Housing Boss Albert M. Cole. The firms that did so, declared Cole, were in default of their guarantee agreements ; therefore. FHA had the right to take control of them and sue for recovery...
...stands firm, resisting its allies' pressure, Chou will have lost nothing, and enjoyed provoking a new split between the U.S. and Britain. But what if the U.S. weakens under its allies' pressure? Formosa may be lost by default...
...good use of the three weeks. While military committees talked in calculated deadlock, while the West stayed its hand in indecision, the Viet Minh armies had pressed deep into the Red River Delta. The French had abandoned 3,000,000 Vietnamese. The fall of Hanoi, by siege or by default, seemed imminently possible...
...China. France would keep little else. Chou put it diplomatically: China wanted to be the protector of all three independent Indo-Chinese states. In a matter of months, thousands of gallant Vietnamese who had pledged their lives to the free world's promises would be handed over by default to their ruthless enemies...
...Communist Viet Minh did not bother to launch their offensive against the Red River Delta last week. At Geneva and across the shrouded land of Viet Nam, they were winning the war by default...