By the early nineties, Bailey had acquired a large sum of debt.

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Whatever the overall sum of foreign debt, one thing is clear.

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Gross total debt is the sum of consumer, corporate, state and municipal debt plus U.S. government debt including that portion held by Federal agencies and trusts.

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Just a few days earlier Mulyono had visited the clinic to pay an instalment of the debt, and the sum had been accepted gladly.

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Ernst looks at net income before extraordinary items divided by the sum of common and preferred equity and long-term debt.

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But deficits would fall much less (the sum of the bars in the graph) and government debt would climb to nearly 90 percent of GDP in 2022.

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Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus and Spain also all owe investors abroad a net sum of 80-100% of GDP (the gross debt is much larger).

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In a much-need spot of car-making consolidation, Daewoo , the fourth-largest chaebol, said it was buying the debt-laden car unit of Ssangyong , another conglomerate, for an undisclosed sum.

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"Hong Kong is still the major center, but this has gone beyond Asia, " said Augusto King, Royal Bank of Scotland's co-head of debt capital markets in Asia, talking about investors' interest in dim-sum bonds, also known as CNH bonds, where the "H" stands for Hong Kong.

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