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He's always ready to go on the hook for his boss.

Once existing supply contracts expire, Zhong Wang could find itself on the hook for pricier aluminium for at least some of its products.

They have had us on the hook for a week.

Chinese entrepreneurs and companies were on the hook for much of that, and many were slaughtered in the bear market.

The company and its frachisees were left on the hook for expensive new ovens and widened drive through windows that weren't needed.

Yet German banks are on the hook for so much Greek (and other Mediterranean) debt that some kind of taxpayer support may be unavoidable.

Traders would be on the hook for a maximum payout of $4bn in a default, once contracts are netted against each other, according to the DTCC.

We should move away from the general attitude of "too big to take a pay cut, " especially when the taxpayer is on the hook for the bill.

And without Wall Street reform, we could have found ourselves with the taxpayers once again on the hook for Wall Street's mistakes.

But with taxpayers suddenly on the hook for gigantic bank losses, even as revenues plunged, the nation's creditworthiness was put in doubt.

Your company is on the hook for that money, whether it's a $20 ATM withdrawal or a multimillion-dollar electronic funds transfer.

This has potentially put taxpayers on the hook for large future bills, but the financial situation has stabilized.

YetGerman banks are on the hook for so much Greek (and otherMediterranean) debt that some kind of taxpayer support may beunavoidable.

It wasted billions of dollars over many months delaying GM's filing and then implicitly put itself on the hook for many billions more.

Suddenly AIG was on the hook for billions, with Goldman Sachs the creditor-in-chief.

Downloading P2P files that could put your family on the hook for thousands of dollars?

This may put central government on the hook for a lot of unwanted liabilities.

Here the federal sector is on the hook for a number of liabilities.

Allowing the FHA to guarantee even more loans will put taxpayers on the hook for millions more.

If poor countries cannot fund themselves, richer brethren will find themselves on the hook for their collateral damage.

English bookmakers were on the hook for more than $100 million had England gone on to win the World Cup.

But if enough banks got into trouble, the government would be on the hook for any shortfall.

It is seeking treble damages under the False Claims Act, meaning that Deutsche could be on the hook for more than $1 billion.

Berkshire lost $3. 4bn on a physical disaster whereas Mr Buffett is on the hook for a lot more from financial volatility.

Superintendents and principals, who are on the hook for results, can't get enough TFA teachers.

Keep in mind that turnover is high, so you'll be on the hook for capital gains tax , too.

If Citigroup remains stuck, taxpayers will be on the hook for outsize losses.

The man who nearly took down the French banking system is on the hook for millennia.

A boat passes, I'm not gonna be on the hook for missing it.

It set new rules so that taxpayers would never again be on the hook for a bailout if a big financial company went under.

taxpayers were put on the hook for hundreds of billions of pounds in possible bank losses;