But she considers herself lucky: Her loans are federally subsidized, and they're much smaller than those of her friends, who owe sums as much as $70,000.
Like many financial institutions, Lehman has a huge balance sheet — it owes vast sums, and is owed vast sums in return.
In March, he charged that Germany owed "vast sums" to the United States for NATO.
A number of other writers and photographers, including Willard Foxton, Sean Anderson and William Hanson say they are owed smaller sums ranging from £100 to £500.
Because Long-Term Capitalarged large sums to banks and other financial institutions, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York organized a consortium of companies to buy it out and cover the debts.
Germany owed enormous sums in reparations to France and Britain, France was in hock to Britain and the US, and Britain in its turn also had huge debts to America.
Among the banks owed sizeable sums are RBS, which arranged $2.3bn, or 17%, of Dubai World loans since January 2007, according to analysis by JP Morgan.
Calzaghe, 36, and Warren split after working together for 12 years, with Warren claiming breach of contract while Calzaghe argues he is owed substantial sums of money.
But as the French-language African news site Jeune Afrique observes, no sooner did he put his hand up to enter the race than accusations resurfaced in the local news media that Mr. N'Dour owed large sums in unpaid taxes, a symptom of what the site called the "lions' den" of politics in Senegal.
Britain had won the war but it owed huge sums to the US.
