Getting into debt was long associated with profligacy or fecklessness.

But getting the dollars to repay the debt was not easy.

But consider the way in which the term debt (the original sin against God, with Satan as the great loan shark) has become leverage, a metaphor from engineering that has turned the classical injunction against getting into debt into a virtual duty to be highly leveraged.

To be in debt feeds the double temptation of getting what we want as quickly as possible as well as getting something for nothing.

First, debt continually grows second, there is no really satisfactory way of getting rid of it.

You know, he's thinking, What am I getting myself into?

Unsustainable private debt problems must be resolved by defaults, debt reductions, and conversion of debt into equity.

One reason to be concerned about the bad deal that American taxpayers are getting is the looming national debt.

( And say ) We have fallen into debt

( And say ) We have fallen into debt

We're jugglers, OK. And remember, you're transposing, you're getting into a subculture here.

Where did you get the stupid idea of getting into Mr. Sadiq's office?

The war has cost nearly 200 billion, and costs will continue to mount, because getting into Iraq was much easier than getting out will be.

In a boom environment, the emotional factors are biased toward getting into the market.

With investigative journalists getting into the act, land acquisition became a political land mine.

Fifth, debt burdens that cannot be eased by growth, savings, or inflation must be rendered sustainable through orderly debt restructuring, debt reduction, and conversion of debt into equity.

This went on about six or seven times, and we were getting more and more alarmed, and we were also getting deeper and deeper into the desert.

So if you keep further down the knowledge map, we're getting into more advanced arithmetic.

I assist her in walking, placing her in a chair, and getting into our car.

The UN has focused on getting seeds and fertilizers into the hands of small farmers.

So you can imagine Paul was maybe a little bit hesitant about getting into the water.

The key to surviving a nuclear blast is getting out, and not going into harm's way.

The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal.

Two fundamental facts have created an apparently insoluble dilemma for the global economy, and have turned countries like Argentina and Greece into victims of an impossible logic. First, debt continually grows second, there is no really satisfactory way of getting rid of it.

Where realistic debt restructuring scenarios indicate capital shortfalls, across the board conversion of bank debt into equity will be necessary.

What Europe and the IMF have essentially done is to convert a private debt problem into a sovereign debt problem.

I was in these venues, and people were, you know, really into getting them. They were excited.

I'm not the only one doing it there are a lot of other people getting into it.

In order to prevent sinners from getting caught in a debt trap, the fines could take the form of covered bonds collateralized with privatizable state assets.

So this is about getting an economic engine, and then at night it turns into a movie theater.

Everybody in the East Coast gets in the pictures Citicorp, Penney, RCA all getting into this big vision.

Even lawyers are getting into the act, trying to identify legal responsibility for the monetary union s design flaws.

But, with 90 days left to bridge the ideological and partisan divide before another crisis erupts, the fuse on America s debt bomb is getting shorter and shorter.

So the question is not what to do when debt gets near its limit, however high or low. It is how to prevent debt from getting near that limit in the first place, except in very extreme and unusual circumstances.

So if you don't have a space of your own, I highly recommend finding one, and getting into it.

BERKELEY Getting out of our current financial mess requires understanding how we got into it in the first place.

But the longer term subject will be getting as many countries as possible into the global NATO security network.

Their policies would piggyback on US state unemployment insurance programs, allowing Assura to avoid getting into the monitoring business.

Getting such patients to accept being put into a control group where no acupuncture is applied is almost impossible.

Those forced into prostitution risk being mentally and physically abused, getting sexually transmitted diseases and obviously risking their future.

Facebook groups were getting created. Facebook applications were getting created.

For countries that have reached the completion point, the challenge is to achieve lasting debt sustainability and avoid falling into a new debt trap.

Debt collection from poor nations is an absurdity, now and into the distant future.

That left individual eurozone members exposed to brutal pressure by financial markets at a time when excessive private debt was turned into unsustainable public debt.

And it's getting worse because travel is getting so much better.