Word: defaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese automatic weapons, the Pathet Lao is attacking neutralist villages on the supply lines between the Plaine des Jarres and Communist North Viet Nam to the east. Many neutralists have openly defected to the Reds, adding to Westerners' fears that Laos is going to the Communists by default...
...bankrupts and habitual bad debtors. Some of these retailers may be motivated by genuine solicitude for a man who has fallen on bad times. But many are taking calculated advantage of the fact that no bankrupt can go bankrupt again for six years. This means that in case of default, they can garnishee his salary (or repossess the purchase) without danger of being frustrated by a new bankruptcy action or forced to settle for a fraction on the dollar. In Chicago, where personal bankruptcy cases have risen from 1,048 in 1952 to 9,832 last year, the newly bankrupt...
...Eureka. California law prohibits any change in the ballot within 40 days of an election, so the Democrats were unable to replace Miller. They kept on campaigning, argued that by electing Miller posthumously and forcing a later special election, the voters could keep the Republican candidate from winning by default. "The people are entitled to an election with a choice of candidates," said the Democrats...
...development loan, it expects the applicant to show that his project is well conceived and that his credit is good. The bank expects to make a modest profit on its international loans, and tends its business so shrewdly that in 16 years of lending it has not suffered a default. Last year the bank opened its vaults for $646 million in loans to 19 countries. Who got most of the money? Not Africa or Asia. Latin America...
...default of dramatic momentum, Director Joshua Logan soups up the melodramatic attitudinizing-soulful head clutchings, venomous spittings-in-the-face, and caged-animal stage stalking. Only in the last act does one scene come alive with fury and clarity. Diana Sands, a cool, sexy hustler who has worn the body-and-soul-for-sale sign longer than the tiger, proposes marriage to him. Too sterile for love, too cynical for hope, she suggests only that they huddle together for animal warmth in their loneliness. In the psychic fatigue of her voice, there is a fox at bay, and one hears...