Word: defaulting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year the government issued 6.1 millionloans worth $18 billion, with default costsrunning $2.5 billion...
...Instead of promoting education, some Federal student-aid programs have been used to victimize students." In a Los Angeles congressional district, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters says students use federal loans to matriculate at fly-by-night trade schools and cannot find jobs after they graduate. They default on the loans, can't get credit, and are unable to escape poverty. Taxpayers pick...
...from, say, the New York Times, and let it go at that, let the reader wade through the sociopolitical spate of happenings of the century's second decade in the appropriate studies of the period, and for his own impression." Then he adds: "Lazy man's way, way of default and ineptitude...
Brooks' feature films are utterly personal. He writes them alone, he draws characters from his own drives and insecurities, he creates stories for himself that he hopes audiences will like. The films are intimate sagas, chamber epics, where a life and a movie can pirouette on the subtlest default of principle...
...plumbers made their first payment in 1991 as scheduled, but have continued to default on further payments even after Harvard granted them a one year extension...