Prior to Hamilton's working his magic, the U.S. had been a deadbeat, junk bond nation.
In one of its current spots a haggard-looking single mom argues with a deadbeat dad who's moving out-of-state.
He was also a deadbeat who contributed nothing to my mother's care and stole money her grandmother had willed to her.
As for Argentina, riding a temporary lift from farm exports and a cheap currency, the latest Peronist regime is likely to lead where the earlier ones did-to a deadbeat dead end.
It is uncertain which bills will be paid on the days following August 2 and which will be postponed, but the financial markets do not expect Uncle Sam to become a deadbeat.
No honest policymaker in the 1800s pretended that a superficial debt ceiling would possibly prevent the U.S. government from becoming a reckless deadbeat.
Sotheby's has been bitten hard in the past and now takes a very aggressive stance against deadbeat auction winners.
He adds that all the scrutiny that banks are under fire over concerning foreclosure procedures is creating the perfect environment for a massive bail-out of deadbeat homeowners.
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Ongoing media coverage depicting Argentina as either an immoral deadbeat or exploited debtor are providing a contemporary version of what one of the Minor Prophets is written to have foreseen.
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As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, that's a trick that's long been used to track deadbeat borrowers and cheating spouses.
He grew up in a rundown suburb of Cleveland, where his father struggled with deadbeat clients in the furniture-refinishing business and saw their house plummet in value when the neighborhood was hit by white flight, he says.
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One deadbeat client made cash flow tight but wasn't a disaster.
In January 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched a website to get the public's help in finding and bringing fugitive "deadbeat parents" to justice.
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If you are only going to rent your house out for a few days or weeks, you won't have to worry about collecting from deadbeat tenants, since costs for the entire rental period are paid in advance.
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