He went from honor roll to delinquent.
Occasionally, New York threatens to turn off the water to delinquent commercial customers.
The Bush administration's new plan applies to delinquent loans controlled by the government-run mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The last time New Jersey offered amnesty to delinquent taxpayers, in 1996, the results exceeded the best projections.
Clearly, putting an end to corruption — to kickbacks and nepotism, to crooked judges and policemen, to delinquent bureaucrats and drug lords — is Mexico's greatest challenge.
States have borrowed against pension funds and tobacco settlement payments and offered amnesty to delinquent taxpayers to encourage them to make overdue payments.
Yet still more needs to be done: the "coverage" ratio of reserves to delinquent loans dropped last quarter, as credit conditions worsened (see chart).
Anybody who has ever taken a meeting knows that trying to hold the attention of people with BlackBerrys is like trying to teach Latin to delinquent teenagers.
The bank said it would reach out to delinquent borrowers whose mortgage balance was at least 20 percent greater than the value of the house.
"As of [Monday], the datacenter pulled the power on the equipment due to delinquent payment.
