Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visitors' Committee should know that the leadership of the SDS does not represent student opinion. Nor does the HUC, whose members are often elected by default in most of the Houses...
...opinion as "superficial," forecast a new wave of litigation over branching laws, criticized the way the Government had defended his position. "The original brief prepared in our office was masterly," he said, "but it was emasculated by the Solicitor General's office. This case went down by default...
...secretary of state by overwhelming majorities despite serious Republican efforts to capture these offices. In the House of Representatives, Democrats still hold a two-thirds majority (170-69), and the Senate margin is almost as wide (26-14). Republicans, citing that 107 House and 15 Senate seats went by default to the Democrats, claimed that they could have done better if they had contested more seats. This conclusion, however, is doubtful, as the case of Milton suggests...
...until Canada takes meaningful action along these lines, the situation will continue to deteriorate. More of Canada's resources will fall, by default, into the hands of American business, the percentage of American control over the Canadian economy will increase, and there will be greater popular hostility toward the United States. This trend will not be reversed until Canada buys back its economic freedom...
...mortgage policy also can make an intentional default profitable for the builders. The agency insures up to 90 per cent of the total cost of a 220 project, including both the market value of the land and a 10 per cent profit allowance for building in its computation of the cost. But investors can sometimes swing deals to buy development plots below market value, and then take the 10 per cent profit for their own construction companies. They may also build projects for less than the estimated cost. If the investor defaults, he retains the mortgage money, well-padded over...