| 1 | We heard, too late, that he had let town in order to welch on all his debts. | |
| 2 | Captains of local industry have fled from debts, sometimes by taking their own lives, local authorities say. | |
| 3 | The area has been especially hard-hit by a credit crunch that has seen 90 indebted business owners take flight from creditors, while several others have committed suicide. | |
| 4 | She was born in Independence, Kans., the daughter of a Depression-era surgeon and a nurse who always shunned debt. | |
| 5 | Facing an unpayable debt of two billion yuan ($314 million) in mid-September, Mr. Hu fled to the United States for 20 days. |