Word: unpaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first half of this year, ten states had to borrow a total of $2.37 billion from the Federal Government in order to pay basic benefits to their jobless workers. For all of 1981, nine states borrowed only $1.6 billion. These loans, coupled with unpaid balances incurred during earlier downturns, have pushed the total indebtedness for 16 states, plus Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, to $7.8 billion. That figure is expected to grow to $9.5 billion by year's end, and more states are likely to join the list of loan seekers before the recovery...
...week's hotel bill brouhaha made Miamians wonder if the Saudi spending spree was over. The hoteliers say Mohammad recently bounced 37 checks, and on Thursday they got a judge to impound his jewelry and cars still at the Diplomat. Several indulgent creditors, including a taxi company with unpaid fares totaling $157,000, were fretful, and Mohammad's construction crew walked off the job. But Rasheed, the family spokesman, was reassuring. "Everybody will get his money. Everybody will be happy, kiss the hand and come to work again.'' -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by William McWhirter/Miami
...uneasy stalemate over Poland's struggle to repay even part of the $28 billion it owes Western banks passed another milestone last week, when Warsaw virtually completed interest payments on its 1981 debt, thereby paving the way for rescheduling last year's unpaid $2.4 billion in principal. Crisis-weary bankers gave a sigh of relief, and then started thinking about collecting the $10.4 billion in debt-service payments that Poland must make this year...
Under another new statute aimed at minor violators, a $5 ticket that goes unpaid for 21 days automatically becomes a $10 ticket. If the payment is still neglected after a warning letter is issued, the fine jumps to $25 and the city notifies the registry of motor vehicles...
There are about 432,000 unpaid parking tickets in the city this year alone, and another 700,000 from previous years backed up in the courts, Teso said...