Entries in the minus column

Usage examples of debits.

All debits, but on the plus side Dudley's ranting didn't put out information restricted to Lesnick's files, leaving that avenue of manipulation still open.

Now, alone in her room, Katherine, considering the drawbacks to life in Roxburgh and Owlsden, began to make a mental list of debits that she had been willing to ignore until the events of the afternoon.

She found herself methodically adding up the credits and the debits of life at Owlsden, as she had done once before, but she had different results than the first time.

In the Architectural Center there were debits for failure but no extra credits for success.

But when you were a i-Dayman like the Investigator, the avoidance of any debits would become enormously important.

Everything he looked upon wasreduced to debits and credits, profits and loss, all weighed in thebalance, counted to the penny, and chalked up into one column oranother.

He adjusted the specta cles carefully on his nose, picked up his pen, waved a negligent hand in acquiescence, and returned to his credits and debits, his additions and subtractions.

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square.