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...driver. Yet traffic on the world's longest bridge-tunnel has been only half of what the experts predicted. In 1969, for example, drivers paid $8,100,000 in tolls, less than half of the originally projected revenues. This discrepancy may well cause an embarrassing default on some bond interest payments...
...propriety of using tax money to pay off the bonds. The matter has caused anxious debate in the assembly, where the argument for support is that the state's reputation for fiscal integrity would be tarnished if Virginia let the bond issue of a political subdivision go into default...
Fuller (167) paced the Crimson onslaught by defeating the Bruins' Dave Beemer on a default after 33 seconds of the second period. The match had been stopped twice because of injuries to Beemer and it was finally decided that he could no longer continue...
...could also force him to risk losing the support of those in the center of the political spectrum by more actively courting the hard-liners in the South. This could split the conservative vote in states like Georgia and Arkansas and give the Democrats there a victory by default...
...SALT, then, the initiative goes to the Soviets by default. Their own military and technocracy may restrain efforts at statesmanship, but these efforts must be forthcoming in order to moderate the nuclear competition...