But there was a kind of winking acknowledgment that they were not going to let Greece fall out of the EU due to debt, if it came to that.

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Ashoka Mody, a professor at Princeton University who until recently was a senior official at the IMF in charge of its involvement in the Irish bailout, said government debt in other bailout countries should be restructured pre-emptively, in acknowledgment of the fact that it is too large to repay.

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Ambrose told the newspaper that his footnotes and acknowledgment section in Crazy Horse and Custer had made his debt clear to the late Jay Monaghan , author of the earlier work.

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