Mortgage lending by banks, meanwhile, is growing by 10% a quarter and unsecured lending in the form of credit cards, loans and overdrafts by 13% a quarter over the past year.
She started the campaign in 2009, after learning during a carpool trip that unsecured guns were in the home of a family where her daughter had played.
As a result, the unsecured creditors of American Airlines instead of getting debt or a combination of debt and stock in the merged airlines, will receive preferred stock.
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Following the corporate bankruptcy filing of the U.S. operations of LyondellBasell, a group of unsecured creditors of LyondellBasell that suffered large losses sued Blavatnik, claiming he knew when he cobbled the company together that it was being saddled with too much debt.
The central bank keeps its eye on an overnight rate called Eonia, which is calculated by taking a weighted average of all overnight unsecured lending transactions between a pool of 43 of the most active banks in the Eurozone, along with four other international banks.
When you get referred to see a hospital consultant, would you like a letter to be dictated and posted in an unsecured manner to a mail room in a hospital pushed round on a mail cart, opened by somebody processed and then a postcard sent to your house regarding the nature of the appointment and where you should turn up?
Talks broke down, and the union struck a deal instead with unsecured creditors.
"I've never seen anything like it, " says David Honig, a San Francisco attorney who represents a group dealing with unsecured creditors, from grape growers to ups.
There were other offers including preferred shares, unsecured debt, a special purpose vehicle in the Cayman Islands, and investments in credit default swaps.
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Between 2005 and 2008 some foreign banks and several local ones got caught by a mini-boom in unsecured loans to consumers that quickly soured.
But the search giant admits that since 2007, it has also been collecting content data from unsecured networks, a result, it says, of accidentally implementing experimental code that a developer created in 2006.
If you ask banking industry insiders how many of those 50 banks are actually getting unsecured loans for a year - or even one month - on the wholesale market they are quite likely to laugh in your face.
Yes, it means retyping your card number and address with each purchase, but an unsecured Web site is a tantalizing opportunity for hackers.
This could allow the information to be intercepted when transmitted over an unsecured WiFi connection or a public WiFi connections such as those found at coffee shops.
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But as the unsecured creditors committee noted a few weeks ago, American Airlines can certainly exit restructuring without an agreement, although that is certainly not our preference.
When employees connect to an unsecured wireless network in a coffee shop or in their home, they expose all the data they're working on to the whims of whoever else controls the router.
Even so, a further shift towards longer-term unsecured financing will be the price of survival for Morgan Stanley in particular.
Despite a credit boom, which has seen a big increase in low earners' unsecured debt relative to their income, the doorstep lending market is flat.
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In such cases, employees with a WARN claim have priority over other unsecured creditors, but stand behind secured claims by bondholders and the like, says Roupinian.
The victim, 64, who does not want to be named, was manoeuvring a crane when its hook struck the unsecured beam, sending it toppling on to him.
And a full 64 percent of the organizations that prohibit the use of consumerized IT suspect that their employees are using it anyway, meaning that all of those potentially unsecured smartphones and tablets represent a big risk.
An unsecured wireless network is like milk a day past its expiration date.
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Lo and behold, there it was, 2 a.m. and one copy was unsecured.
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Among the failed investments was an unsecured loan of 700m euros to a shipping company - about half of which was lost - and a loan of half a billion euros to a Greek TV company.
This tool represents a means to check inflation despite the breakdown in unsecured markets.
It made it possible to look at the activity of other Web surfers on a shared Internet connection if they were on an unsecured site, which Facebook among other sites like Twitter are.
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As the trial has progressed, lawyers representing Lehman, liquidation trustee James W. Giddens and the official committee of unsecured creditors have probed various witnesses over a number of disputed assets that they contend should not have been part of the deal.
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This is a temporary order that provides some relief from both the unsecured creditors and the lender attempting to collect money.
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The industry's claim that the bill will choke off access to credit is a bit rich given its own rush to reduce its unsecured lending.
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Filing a notice of federal tax lien does that at least against unsecured creditors.
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