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Whoops
A nickname for the Washington Public Power Supply System, which in the 1970s raised billions of dollars through municipal bond offerings, the projects that never materialized. WPPSS defaulted on the payments to bondholders.
Whoops
An informal and derogatory term for the Washington Public Power Supply System. This company issued more than $2 billion in bonds in the 1970s to build nuclear power plants and defaulted on these obligations in 1983. It is now known as Energy Northwest.
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Byline: DAVID CHARTERS WHOOPS-A-DAISY," I said to God the other morning and, between you and me, I could have expressed my displeasure in even starker terms.
All right? I have a bruised bottom, sagging spirits and wet trousers by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Still I suppose the MEPs, in between picking up their pounds 250,000 each, employing their wives and, whoops-a-daisy, funnelling large sums into their own and their relatives' pockets, feel they've got to do something with their time.
A barking mad idea by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Then a pilot, he was to perform England's "national dance" in the spontaneous festivities - and he and two colleagues chose whoops-a-daisy to wow fellow revellers.
Tot of rum went down very well; VE DAY REMEMBERED by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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