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The group’s longtime leader, Carol Schatz, told the City Council at a public hearing that the city was mortgaging its future in a “misguided attempt to buy temporary peace with activists.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

The agreement reverses concessions the union agreed to in a series of contracts since 2007, when GM and the former Chrysler were skidding toward bankruptcy, and Ford was mortgaging assets to stay afloat.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2023

The Ford contract would reverse concessions the union agreed to in a series of contracts since 2007, when GM and the former Chrysler were skidding toward bankruptcy, and Ford was mortgaging assets to stay afloat.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2023

Well, anyway, things worked out so well that pretty soon the girl's father was mortgaging his house to pay for the wedding.

From Stories from the Old Attic by Harris, Robert A.

Leonora 111ignored, perhaps deliberately, that Stanway had still before him the peril of financial embarrassment, that he was mortgaging the house, and that his colloquies with David Dain continued to be frequent and obviously disconcerting.

From Leonora by Bennett, Arnold