Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only was he accepted for the team, but he loved it. "I couldn't do anything else," said Fallows. "It's an interest by default that became a passion...
What concerns me is the third group: People who neither particularly want nor need the money, but have selected I-banking or, more often, consulting as a default--as what one does if one is not sure what...
...might be tempting to assume that the Harvard women's soccer team will win its fourth straight Ivy championship by default. After all, it reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament last year...
Russia's ruble devaluation and debt default were not especially damaging in broad economic terms; the Russian economy is no bigger, measured by gross domestic product, than that of the Netherlands. But the Russian default and devaluation were devastating financially and psychologically. They reinforced the impulse of global investors to pull their capital out of any country where they sense the slightest risk. Sinai explains that because of Russia's thousands of nuclear weapons, many considered its economy too important to be allowed to fail. Yet it did collapse, and investors drew a bitter lesson: in theory any country could...
...just a few miles from the Howard Street apartment where he grew up. One flight up from a saloon, the flat was all the family could afford during the Depression, as his father barely held on to his job collecting nickels from pay phones. His parents were Democrats by default. "If you lived in Chicago in the '30s, you were a Democrat," says longtime friend Philip Corboy. The stronger influence in Hyde's life was Catholicism. Coaxed by his mother, he attended St. George, a Catholic high school run by the Christian Brothers, who, Hyde says, "did not eschew corporal...