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Deadbeat
The term deadbeat may refer to:

  • deadbeat parent, a parent that has freely chosen not to financially support their children
  • Deadbeat, the stage name of Canadian electronica musician Scott Montieth
  • Dead Beat, a book of the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
  • dead beat control, a problem in discrete control theory of finding an optimal input sequence that will bring the system output to a given setpoint in a finite number of time steps.

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Frustrated by a deadbeat parent? Try invoking the dog law.(Florida)
Mar 01, 2000; Family practitioners occasionally run into the deadbeat parent who simply refuses to obey the order directing payment of support....
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Unhappy 'Father's Pay' -- 130 deadbeats nabbed; $1.5 mil. owed; sheriff plans more arrests
Jun 18, 2007; Edward Kearns spent Father's Day in jail Sunday. His crime: Being a deadbeat dad. Kearns, who owes more than $112,000 in child...
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Society is too quick to slap `deadbeat dad' label on men.(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)
Jun 22, 1996; Good for The Washington Times for having the guts to publish Bill Maxwell's June 8 Commentary article, Deadbeat not always the...
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DEALING WITH THE DEADBEAT PRODUCER
Oct 01, 2005; Deadbeat producers can drag a company down and set a bad example for new producers Traditionally, a deadbeat is defined as "one...
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Deadbeat crackdown has skeptics
Feb 18, 2005; Two weeks ago during his State of the State address, Gov. Rod Blagojevich highlighted the plight of more than 300,000 single moms...
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