Word: defaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...official leaders at all. Former co-chair Ethel B. Branch '01 resigned last fall, and the term of the co-chair she left behind, Sujit M. Raman '00, has since expired. With no one to take over the group, Raman now describes himself as the sole co-chair "by default...
...greater controls. But at this point IMF aid to Russia isn?t even passing through Russian hands ?- it?s simply being transferred from one IMF account to another, because the international body is giving Russia only enough to service its debt to the IMF in order to prevent a default that could destabilize global financial markets...
Biomed never appeared in court to defend itself, and Harvard won by default...
Sonia, however, is no pioneer of spousal succession. Corazon Aquino and Violeta Chamorro, both widows of assassinated opposition leaders, became Presidents, respectively, of the Philippines and Nicaragua. They did not, however, get there by default. They ascended by courageously making themselves the rallying point of a revolution. The one who did ascend for no other discernible reason than having shared the great one's bed is one Mrs. Peron of Argentina. Not Evita, who became a saint after her death but never actually ruled--no, the sorriest modern case of rule by consort is Peron's third wife, Isabel...
...Greenwich home. There they found a burning file cabinet and two fireplaces filled with flaming documents. Frankel's paper trail, which included one note reading "launder money," also included personalized astrological charts answering such questions as: "Will I go to prison?" "Should I leave?" and "Will I be safe?" Default, as Shakespeare might have said, was in his stars...