Borrowers selected for the program must be at least two months past due on their mortgage and face considerable risk of foreclosure.

WSJ: Alternative to Foreclosure Tested

They should get moving on implementing this sensible, past-due proposal or be forced to spend the rest of their existence in a place like La Guardia.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

The figures represent 13.4% of the total value of sheriff court fines due to be paid during the past year, and 42.1% of fiscal direct penalties.

BBC: Scottish Court Service owed ?6.5m in fines

And Shelter said the figures indicated health services had to be involved in 781 cases in the past year due to the behaviour or neglect of private landlords.

BBC: Lettings boards

The opposition, always a highly critical bunch, has been unusually quiet over the past few months (partly, it must be said, due to having to deal with their own internal wranglings).

CNN: IN FOR A ROUGH RIDE

Ms. Nuland said that the Ankara post has been steadily upgraded over the past decade, but that it is a 1950s building due to be upgraded.

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Mr Pearson, who has worked in the company's customer services team for the past 13 years, said he planned to "be lazy" now that he had finally retired due to ill heath.

BBC: Bus man Arthur Pearson, 88, retires after 65 years

It is important to point out that a significant part of the debt burden going forward is due to excessive spending and tax cuts in the recent past, and raising taxes will be needed to cover these past excesses.

ECONOMIST: Plugging the spending gap

About 80 engineers have quit the airline over the past four months due to non- payment of salaries, salaries which Mallya promised back in March would be paid by June.

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