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In bankruptcy parlance, this is called a cram-down.
Greece's Hazardous Road to Restructuring Stephen Fidler 2012
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The Goldman Sachs group believes a so- called cram-down might be tough for Lehman because its proposal conflicts with bankruptcy law in taking money from derivatives creditors, one of the people said.
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The Goldman Sachs group believes a so- called cram-down might be tough for Lehman because its proposal conflicts with bankruptcy law in taking money from derivatives creditors, one of the people said.
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Just below Harry Reid in the Senate leadership and popular with his colleagues, Durbin passionately favored so-called cram-down legislation the shorthand of critics that eventually got picked up by the press that would allow bankruptcy judges to renegotiate the terms of homeowners’ mortgages, as they often did in commercial real estate transactions when borrowers went bust.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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Just below Harry Reid in the Senate leadership and popular with his colleagues, Durbin passionately favored so-called cram-down legislation the shorthand of critics that eventually got picked up by the press that would allow bankruptcy judges to renegotiate the terms of homeowners’ mortgages, as they often did in commercial real estate transactions when borrowers went bust.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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Just below Harry Reid in the Senate leadership and popular with his colleagues, Durbin passionately favored so-called cram-down legislation the shorthand of critics that eventually got picked up by the press that would allow bankruptcy judges to renegotiate the terms of homeowners’ mortgages, as they often did in commercial real estate transactions when borrowers went bust.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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One way that occurs to me … the 59% of us who opposed this cram-down suddenly become big-time users of medical care, the way blacks in Harlem repeatedly flushed their toilets during the drought of the late 60s.
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010
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Notice howq the cross-roads at July 2009 was just about the time the cram-down started, i.e. we hat to finish and enact it before the recess in August … a month away
Slowly but surely, the dawn breaks for the Netroots on health care rationing. | RedState 2010
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As Congress Daily noted, “eliminating or watering down the cram-down provision would be a win for the banking industry.”
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[OT] Health Deform Reconciliation cram-down is back on. cwilson
Online Left: Joe Biden contemptuous of soldiers. | RedState 2010
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