He was also in heavy debt to others and feared the bank would reveal them.
BBC: Bedford knifeman Barry Bell guilty of stabbing colleague
Now, it has such heavy debt that the home islands may sink under the weight of it.
Transocean has been struggling with a heavy debt load that has put pressure on its credit rating.
FORBES: Transocean Forgets Macondo, Focuses On Offshore Market Strength
Chancellor investors objected to marrying LINs television stations and heavy debt load to Chancellors highly profitable radio business.
As you'd expect, spreads usually widen for companies with litigation problems, heavy debt loads or weak operating results.
Not all of these debts are from governments: Banks, nonfinancial companies and households can also carry heavy debt loads.
Jessick made the case: Although a heavy debt load made Rite Aid's bottom line dismal, the stores were capable of operating profitably.
Trading Direct, for instance, lends investors who are willing to assume a heavy debt load at a variable rate of 1.25 percent.
Many companies would love to cut their heavy debt by issuing shares.
ECONOMIST: Signs of a crunch in America's markets for credit
In the short term, a simpler explanation may be that a low savings rate has left American consumers with a heavy debt burden.
Rising losses and a heavy debt burden at the Mumbai-based, steel-maker are said to have raised suspicions that funds may have been diverted elsewhere.
Additionally, Dow is in the process of addressing the heavy debt load taken on to fund the April 2009 purchase of Rohm and Haas.
If (when) the tech bubble bursts, this will cause spending to slow sharply as firms and households struggle to reduce their heavy debt burdens.
The Caribbean nation must get private sector lenders to accept more lenient terms on its existing heavy debt load, equal to 140% of economic output.
One is the heavy debt with which Olivetti would saddle Telecom Italia, and on which it would have to pay a high rate of interest.
For Brooklyn's hospitals, many of which are struggling financially with poor patients and heavy debt loads, it would allow them to cut costs by reducing the overlap between services.
The frenzy comes amid increasing debate about the skyrocketing cost of college tuition and the ease of borrowing that is leading many students to graduate with heavy debt loads.
While snacks like Devil Dogs have a nostalgic appeal, not enough people want to buy them to allow Hostess to get ahead of its high labor costs and heavy debt.
During his visit to Nigeria this week, Mr Wolfowitz told the president, Olusegun Obasanjo, that he hoped the country would make progress in its push to secure relief from its heavy debt burden.
Investors are also concerned about the financial problems of Chinese solar companies, which have accumulated heavy debt obligations over the past several years to fund capacity expansion, with the support of local banks and government.
FORBES: Chinese Solar Fortunes Shrivel, Leaving Just One Billionaire
More optimistic news in Europe included a meeting in Brussels this week in which EU leaders agreed to a crisis resolution mechanism that would give the EU an exit plan in situations of heavy debt and default.
For example, a company with illiquid assets, under a heavy debt burden facing upcoming debt maturities and finding itself unable to refinance, may have to sell off assets at a bad time for less money than it thought those assets were worth.
Countries with heavy debt burdens (like Italy), whose tax base has collapsed (Ireland and Spain), which had a big budget deficit to start with (Britain) or whose long-term growth prospects have been hit hardest (Spain) should fear a sudden loss of investors' confidence more than those with smaller deficits (Germany), better demographic prospects (America) or a reserve currency (America again).
Even the debt problems of Greece this year, and concerns about the heavy government debt of other European countries, were over the horizon.
They do not respond to the most immediate and urgent problem: prolonged mass unemployment caused by heavy household debt.
What lies ahead, by contrast, is a period of retrenchment as households repair finances that have become top-heavy with debt.
The higher education bubble has been inflating for decades, propagating the myth that heavy student debt burden is justified by high paying jobs.
FORBES: After Housing And The Stock Market, Is Higher Education The Next Bubble To Burst?
Making youngsters forfeit part of their productive or educational potential can depress an economy just as heavy government debt or high income taxes do.
In " It's the debt, stupid" (Sept. 16), Paul Schulte makes apparent the heavy burden that debt means to Latin American economies, notably those of Brazil and Argentina, and also the negative effect of the IMF's policies to address this problem.
应用推荐