Word: bankrupter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bankrupt Philosophy...
With a $140 monthly tithe to the Mormon Church, I'm not surprised the Hobsons [April 7] went into debt-and they hardly qualify as a typical bankrupt family. What happened to the concept of separation of church and state when a court can allow them to continue this tithe while owing legitimate businesses...
Mugabe's goals will be especially hard to achieve in the wake of a ruinous war. The country is virtually bankrupt and in debt to white-ruled South Africa for $350 million. The war turned nearly 850,000 into homeless refugees, many of whom live in the rubber-tent slums of urban shanty towns. An extra 170,000 refugees remain in Mozambique and Zambia. More than half the schools have been closed, and nearly 420,000 school-age blacks are uneducated. A third of the 3 million African-owned herd has been lost through disease and theft. The normally...
...construction firms hardest. Merrill Butler, president of the NAHB, estimated that nationwide unemployment in the industry could jump to 15% by October. St. Louis builders are predicting that local industry unemployment will rise to 80%; in some areas, like Chicago, more than 50% of all firms could go bankrupt. Says Michael Keston, president of a California-based construction company: "Builders have crawled into their shells like turtles...
...like a mugging; Public Image's is like a football match in purgatory. Using repeated chords, shattered rhythms and lyrics that sound like electrocuted William Burroughs ("Spreading tales/ Like coffin nails/ Is this living"), Public Image puts on a kind of psychic garage sale whose object is to bankrupt conventional rock. "Wouldn't waste the effort on entertainment," Lydon sings in Chant, and the band plays by that rule for four adventurous sides...