Word: bankrupter
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...time, Kowal says he thought that out of all the final clubs, the D.U. Club, which he describes as “run-down, beat-up and about to go bankrupt,” was “the place where we could get away with [punching women into the club...
...SHEILA MCKENZIE, pediatrician, on severely obese British children, in a report claiming that obesity could eventually cost the U.K. $13.5 billion a year and bankrupt the health service
...there a chance that some of those movies will be good? Sure, but action-y blockbusters as a group are so creatively and intellectually bankrupt that I don’t see any need to cut them any slack; we should consider them bad until proven good. And even at their best, such movies can’t match the worth of good dramas or intelligent, socially relevant comedies; I love Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back as much as the next movie man, but as creative as they are, they’re not much...
Jean-Louis Borloo has made a career of tackling lost causes. As a Parisian lawyer he rescued failing businesses. In 1988 he revived a bankrupt soccer team. And as mayor of Valenciennes from 1989 to 2002, he resurrected the moribund former steel town by revamping neighborhoods, attracting a Toyota factory, building a theater, and planning a regional tram whose first rail will be laid this week. Can this miracle worker save France's embattled conservative government after the party's rout in last month's regional elections? It was evidently with that hope in mind that President Jacques Chirac plucked...
...what was then called Longacre Square. The kind of man who once composed an opera in 24 hours on a bet, Hammerstein was also the kind who sold 10,000 opening-night tickets for 6,000 seats. Disappointed ticket holders broke down the doors. Within three years, he was bankrupt. But the idea of the neighborhood as a center of entertainment spectacle lived...