Four could not get back to the cliff-bottom and got into difficulties.

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The point is that any bidder could submit wildly optimistic and unrealistic forecasts for how much its TOC could increase its revenues in order to win the bid, and then get into lethal financial difficulties when actually operating the franchise on that basis.

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Stuck between two conflicting legal systems, the baby, in effect, became stateless and parentless and there were major difficulties trying to get the baby through immigration into Britain.

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Which is why part of what the chancellor calls the British dilemma is how to allow our banks to thrive but not be so huge that when they get into difficulties they risk bankrupting the Exchequer and taxpayers.

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If you get into difficulties there aren't very many ports to play your 'get out of jail' card with.

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In a banking union, eurozone states would pool their resources to act as the insurers or guarantors of last resort for the deposits in eurozone banks and for bailouts of banks that get into difficulties (this would be true, even if banks subscribe to a deposit protection fund, because there would never be enough in this fund to deal with all possible crises).

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