Word: defaulters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brejchová) housed with other unfortunates in a shoe-factory town where the girls outnumber the boys 16 to 1. To boost morale and expedite production, the factory manager gets some foot-slogging soldiers assigned to the area, most of them doggy, dumpy and married. The blonde succumbs by default to a callow young piano player (Vladimír Pucholt) who has all but forgotten her when she shows up, a week or so later, at his parents' apartment in Prague...
...whose idea of the good life was to bed down in a variety of hospitals on stolen Blue Cross cards. But such abuses are now insignificant-thanks to more responsible screening of applicants and automated accounting techniques-even though credit keeps expanding. In department-store charge accounts, the default rate is only 1 % or 2%. The U.S. lives in a credit economy that is essentially based on trust and responsibility...
...needs, notably 20 Super-Constellations. TWA wrote the Connies off its books as a $38 million loss after flying them only a year and a half. Hughes countersued, but when his penchant for privacy kept him from testifying in court, a federal judge held him in "willful default" and threw out his case...
...objection to this reasoning, Nhat Hanh observed, is that the Viet Cong would win by default. But "this is a psychological war and not a military one," Nhat Hanh emphasized, and if the Viet Cong continued to press their attacks they would find themselves deserted by the war-weary people...
...success comes partly from default. A strong Democrat, perhaps, could topple him in November. Yet a strong candidate appears the least likely choice of the bitterly divided Democratic Party. Though there are many aspirants for the nomination, nearly all have serious political liabilities...