(1) Maggie and Rose Feller are best friends despite the fact that Maggie is a deadbeat with no real job or home and Rose is a high-powered successful attorney.

(2) Is this some new kind of fashion statement where you look like a deadbeat who just rolled out of bed?

(3) Asset management companies set up by governments in Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand have mopped up the worst bad loans, unburdening banks by pulling the plug on deadbeat borrowers.

(4) It's not like I'm some deadbeat , go-nowhere, loser; I want to make something of myself, I want a life. I want to be able to drive.

(5) Consider the case of Iqaluit's reigning tax deadbeat champion, who owes nearly $162,000.

(6) The fix might be as simple as installing a controller to cut costs, increase prices, and hound deadbeat customers.

(7) Now, I ain't no deadbeat , but I've been a little low on cash lately, and when it came time to pay the bills this month, I had to do some tough prioritizing.

(8) So… not the washed-up deadbeat of my worst imaginings, then.

(9) And of course, there are those UN dues, which make us the world's largest deadbeat .

(10) Long dead, true enough, but never to be mistaken for his nephew who continues to exemplify, for some, anyway, the difference between a dead hero and a deadbeat .

(11) You marry the headmaster's son just to climb up the social ladder, and he turns out to be no better than a worthless deadbeat .

(12) Koizumi has argued that it will take three years of tough economic times to fix the banks, put deadbeat corporate borrowers out of business, and set the stage for a new period of growth.

(13) In fact, he was once a deadbeat who declared bankruptcy when he couldn't handle his credit card bills, loan repayments, or Sears and J.C. Penney tabs.

(14) If you are permanently classified as a " deadbeat " your borrowing power will suffer.

(15) If there's one thing the credit card associations want it's tough bankruptcy legislation which holds deadbeats responsible for consumer debt.

(16) It has always been irksome to publishers that they actually have to pay money to those weirdo deadbeats who wander in with manuscripts under their arms.

(17) I must go to bed—I'm dead beat

(18) Putting that aside for a moment, let's look at why the stated reason for this bill - discouraging deadbeats from skimping on consumer debt - makes no sense.

(19) Jack said the comprehensive schools are turning out a load of deadbeats .

(20) They decided that since all the users were part of the ITP community, they would simply make it easy to track the deadbeats , with the threat of public broadcast of their names.

(21) They feel it their duty to tell you all their PB's and how if they weren't injured they'd be much further up the field… not running alongside deadbeats like me boring me to death.

(22) Economies also define what counts as contribution's opposite: who and what are burdens, parasites or deadbeats .

(23) ‘The UFOs never landed,’ Asencio says despondently, as though those deep-space deadbeats were ever supposed to be reliable.

(24) It was pretty much the usual crowd of unwashed jobless deadbeats , greenie lunatics, terrorist-sympathising intellectuals, and arts students.

(25) The three-quarters of Montrealers without university degrees can be excused for feeling like deadbeats .

(26) Thus, Dunie was gunned down by deadbeats at his Nittolo's motel in 1984.

(27) Congressman Chris Van Hollen calls companies who don't pay their share freeloaders and deadbeats .

(28) Both share Lord Black's opinion that hacks are a shiftless lot of ignorant and opinionated deadbeats and the fewer the better.

(29) But eventually the show about a loving, professional, upbeat clan was eclipsed by domestic comedies about dysfunctional deadbeats , such as Roseanne, Married with Children and The Simpsons.

(30) It was all smoking and wood and old people, some of whom were great writers and painters, some of whom thought they were; some were just deadbeats .