Word: bankrupter
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...that is existentially meaningful? The modern incarnation of Success (a frightfully narrow-minded and shortsighted beast, despite some superficial attractiveness) has seduced many, indoctrinating in them the deluded equation of material possession with existential significance. Hordes of people dedicate their lives to the ravenous chasing of money--a spiritually bankrupt plutolatry--as if money were anything other than a means to some end. Though earning money is necessary, especially in light of the considerable economic constraints that many face, the risk of buying into this money-as-God mentality is no less than the risk of stranding oneself...
...become stronger and wiser: "Thank you India/ Thank you terror/ Thank you disillusionment." On another song, That I Would Be Good, she offers a string of self-affirmations: "That I would be good even if I gained 10 pounds/ That I would be fine even if I went bankrupt...
...saving lives is assigned nowadays to saving the institution itself. All across the country, teaching hospitals are trying to figure out how to marry progress with profits, how to come up with the money that will let them continue to lead the world in death-defying discoveries, without going bankrupt in the process...
Though the partners and investors in Long Term Capital are sophisticated and wealthy (the minimum price of admission was $10 million), Federal Reserve officials feared letting them go bankrupt. So many of the nation's biggest banks and brokerages had loaned so much money to Long Term Capital that its collapse could have severely damaged those lenders, forced a spiral of securities sales and shaken confidence in the already wobbly world financial system. Long Term Capital, if not exactly too big to fail, loomed too large on the balance sheets of institutions like J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch...
...counts Rudenstine among its board members and often uses Harvard as a mouthpiece. Last week its leaders had expressed concern about loan refinancing and the provision--still in the final version of the bill--which says that even if graduates go bankrupt, they still must pay their student loans...