Word: bankrupter
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...Qureshi's reforms, but she pandered to feudal landowners with promises of new price supports for agricultural commodities. She also pitched heavily for the support of women. Nawaz Sharif stood on his record of having launched privatization and several grandiose development projects, which have left the country nearly bankrupt...
...liberals refuse to change and continue on their current path, they risk having their hypocrisy recognized. They risk having their liberalism exposed as being anything but liberal, a bankrupt and empty ideology which calls for everything to be free (health care, abortion, etc.). Everything except for speech--even if that speech is from a marginalized group. The marginalized need protection and respect, not abuse...
Small-business operators are the most frightened opponents of Clinton's: their National Federation of Independent Business is gearing up a campaign to kill his plan. The entrepreneurs fear that being forced to offer health insurance to their employees and pay 80% of its cost would either bankrupt them or force them to lop workers off their payrolls (even though some employers would get federal subsidies to help out). On a televised visit to a Washington hardware store last week, the President pledged to take another look at his plan to see "if there is something...
...shake things up. In Britain earlier this month, critics charged that his cuts in the newsstand price of the staid London Times and the tabloid Sun were predatory moves to drive rivals out of business, which he denies. In New York City, angry employees threatened to shut down the bankrupt Post, which Murdoch owned from 1976 to 1988 and began running again last April in preparation for repurchasing it and rescuing it from collapse. The employee threat was prompted by management demands for the right to ban strikes and fire employees at will during the next four months...
...rail patrons ("The public be damned"), which has shadowed the industry for more than a century, at last seems laid to rest. "We are customer driven; we tailor-make our service for our customers," says James Hagen, chairman of Conrail, a firm that was fabricated out of the bankrupt remains of dozens of lines, including the legendary New York Central and the Pennsylvania. Conrail lost $412 million in 1977, the first full year after it was birthed. Last year it made $282 million. Hagen and his cohorts in the rail business are tough businessmen, not the plungers and exploiters...