The average bond rating fell from a in 1981 to BBB - today, just one notch above junk status.

债券平均评级已经从1981年的A滑落至如今的BBB -，距垃圾债不过一步之遥。

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Iceland still has junk bond status in the eyes of the ratings agencies.

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Then the mayor flew to Wall Street, which he boasted he would so impress with his forceful ideas that it would upgrade Miami's bond-rating from junk status. (It listened politely but remained unmoved.) It was then that a columnist, Carl Hiaasen, advised the mayor in the Miami Herald that, while in New York, he should visit Bellevue, an insane asylum of legend.

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Many of her highly leveraged companies are severely troubled and as a result her once triple-AAA bond deals have been reduced to junk status.

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