Greece's debt managers are also finalising a €135 billion package of debt swaps and rollovers for private-sector investors which would allow the country to delay the repayment of about one-third of its bills for up to 30 years.The scrambling might be enough to allow Greece to escape immediate default; but it will also make a more brutal restructuring in the future much harder.
Increases in debt rollovers because of higher stocks of debt and shorter maturities on some crisis-period borrowing will outweigh reductions in budget deficits.
And some projects, once under way, are worth finishing even if they were not worth starting.Loan rollovers give banks time to earn their way out of trouble, setting aside profits from good loans before they recognise losses on bad ones.
Instead, they will remain a chronic affliction which the state and its banks will try to ameliorate over time with a combination of government-orchestrated rollovers, repression and repayment.Such a combination is unfair to taxpayers and depositors, but it is also stable.
However, its local debt's average duration is just 14 months, calling for frequent rollovers.
Ford's reputation was damaged by the exploding petrol tanks of its Pinto compact in the 1970s when it emerged that a safer design had been rejected on cost grounds, and then again nearly 20 years later when its Explorer SUV equipped with Firestone tyres was involved in a spate of rollovers that were responsible for 42 deaths.
And this means that the Saturday draw has a larger supply of smaller rollovers, making it less attractive.
The weight of MRAPs (with models ranging from 9 to 25 tons) and their top-heavy weight distribution make the vehicles prone to rollovers and less than ideal for off-road use.
Global lottery odds A £50.4m prize would dwarf the current biggest individual Lotto win of £20.1m, and a Camelot spokeswoman said the repeated rollovers and mounting jackpot total had "generated great excitement in terms of sales".
It is the total result of 13 consecutive rollovers after new rules introduced in October lifted the previous limit of four.
Tickets for Wednesday's draw soared due to the largest ever National Lottery jackpot thanks to 13 consecutive rollovers.
