But because the victims were all illegal migrants, their dependants have received no compensation, meagre charity, and endured such appalling harassment from debt collectors that several have been driven from their homes and at least one woman has killed herself.
Over the past few years, though, it has been on the verge of collapse, crippled by ballooning debts, appalling service and ludicrous overemployment.
They played beautifully against Manchester United in Rome in 2009, but apart from the fact that their opponents were hardly the ghost of the team that had beaten Chelsea a year earlier, it was also true that Barça's presence in the final owed a huge debt to some appalling officiating in the Stamford Bridge semi-final.
The threat not to raise the US debt ceiling is appalling and terrible for the world economy.
On the other side of the ledger, official unemployment in Spain stands at the appalling rate of 22% and public debt is roughly 100%.
But similar approaches are being applied to private debts as well, and at an appalling scope.
The current impasse -- the government shutdown and the Republicans' refusal to raise the debt ceiling -- is just one (especially appalling) episode in a long-running drama.
Once again, accepting something previously considered appalling proved preferable to compromise.In the case of the debt ceiling, the threat of torture worked.
He put a host of profitable companies under one roof but spent an appalling amount of money to do so (Tyco has twenty-seven binlion debtand in debtherend there's little evidence that those companies performed better after Kozlowski came along.
Frederick, in spite of his appalling personal relationship with his father, admired him as a ruler and freely acknowledged the debt he owed him.
