But the true debt, known to economists as the fiscal gap, which includes all the off-the-book obligations of the government, is 20 times larger!
What caught me by surprise after we moved is that I felt cut off from the book business.
Their comments do not appear to have put readers off buying the book, which has already become this year's best-selling hardback fiction title, and the fastest selling since 2009's Dan Brown hardback The Lost Symbol, which topped 550, 000 in its first week.
The civil complaint lays out a dizzying array of transactions that Enron employed over a four-year period to make it appear that earnings were growing steadily and that the company was able to pay its debts--many of which were hidden from shareholders through the use of off-the-book and offshore partnerships.
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Crowns takes many of the stories in the book right off the page.
It's not too difficult, but is still considerably more complicated than walking into the library and pulling a book off the shelf.
London music venues such as the Forum in Kentish Town and the Hammersmith Apollo were sold off last year, following the Waterstones book chain, which was spun off in 2011.
Yiddishkeit Jewishness that depends more on language, culture and shared institutions than on religion is killed off early in the book.
"One of the reasons I always liked golf is because the rest of my life is going at breakneck speed and everything had to be done fast and this is the place where I had to slow down, " Clinton told Don Van Natta Jr. in "First Off the Tee, " the definitive book about presidents and golf.
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In The Corrections there are passages which take the book off in what seems like a totally different direction, but the undertow of anxiety and despair is always there.
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The dialogue has spun off and the conversation about the book is now spreading virally all over the world.
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These are homes where authors turned ideas into page-turners, and maybe even inspired the next book choice you dust off the shelf.
Lord of the Rings is currently packing them in and last week Philip Pullman author of a trilogy of children's books was awarded one of the world's top literary prizes the Whitbread Book of the Year, the first time that a book aimed at children has carried off this particular award, The Amber Spy Glass, part three of the trilogy.
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At their previous home, which overlooked a city park, "I would sometimes have someone come up to me and say, 'Oh, I saw you getting a book off the shelf, ' " she recalled.
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But Ferguson was keen to concentrate on the positives after his young side - that contained five played aged 21 or under - saw off the Championship strugglers to book their place at Wembley.
Nonetheless she is very kind to them, and leaves them on the floor overnight when necessary, and lets them off paying for their suppers until the book gets sold, and gradually she adds Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese and Kurt Vonnegut to the list of favoured ones.
But as I looked at the paintings in his book he pulls off the not-inconsequential feat of conjuring some of the best-known views in the world with fresh eyes and during a subsequent visit to his West 57th Street studio, I realized that in some ways Venice may be among the easier subjects to portray, because it's so open to love.
While it still looks pretty good from certain angles, the log-book shows that the wheels fell off completely just five months ago.
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Mr McCain comes off badly too, but the book's account is tinged with sadness, as The Economist's own reporting of the maverick politician's tragic final act was also inclined to be.
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Indeed, guided by Hueston's calm questioning, Fastow informed the jury that all three led the conspiracy to hide hundreds of millions of dollars in losses via the now infamous off-book entities LJM1 and LJM2.
"Certainly the strong e-book growth has taken the tarnish off the otherwise tricky market, " said Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller.
The man portrayed in the Rolling Stone article as arrogant comes off as far more down to earth in the book.
There is duplication across the behind-the-scenes material, and an annoying corporate type reading blankly off an autocue in an effort to advertise the book spin-offs from the movie.
She comes off the way she does in the book super smart, hyper articulate, charismatic yet vulnerable.
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The format may throw some off but this is a serious business book, just not in the classical wall-of-text-plus-some-scatted-diagrams.
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Uruguay exceeded all expectations after having to beat Costa Rica in a play-off to book their place in the finals.
As a consequence, when everything fell off a cliff the following year the book went on to become something of a minor best-seller.
Sure, some might shake their heads in dismay a little bit and feel a bit put off over having to rethink the record book.
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