Word: bankrupting
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...stir a few years ago by reviewing the Bill T. Jones dance production "Still/Here" by not reviewing it, saying that she would not actually watch the performance because she found the underlying conceit of the show (AIDS patients perform dances about their illness) to be callous, manipulative and morally bankrupt. While I wasn't under the impression that "Survivor I" had any of those qualities, my review without a review said that it had an even worse one: It was boring...
...another plant unexpectedly going down - could throw everything else out the window. Still, by 2 p.m. on the West Coast today, state officials were hoping to have a "boring weekend." Of course, with the state still scrambling to get more power plants built and keep its utilities from going bankrupt, and summer just a few months away, California's energy crisis promises to be anything but dull...
...exploit Hindu nationalist sentiments around the Ayodhya issue. Some observers believe that he may be doing this as something of a distraction for his supporters, trying to create political space for himself to push through tough economic measures, which he desperately needs to do. The government is basically bankrupt, and India is facing an economic slowdown. We're heading back into a terrible mess, but in a democracy as politically fractured as India's, it's hard to cut government spending. The alternative is privatization - the government owns everything from hotels to car factories, and all they've managed...
...place during radioactive disputes like the recount. But in reality, says University of Florida political analyst Richard Scher, it has made the state a dysfunctional place in crises--a warning to the rest of the nation, he adds, about the pitfalls of centrism. "When the parties are as intellectually bankrupt as they are in this state today," says Scher, "it leaves the politicians with little to do but mud wrestle at times like this, not for the sake of their party causes but for the sake of blind, individual ambition." America, you've tuned in to Tallahassee!, a TV soap...
Opponents argued the proposal was poorly worded, would bankrupt insurers and hospitals and drive up Massachusetts' already high medical costs. Doctors or other professional came out on both sides of the question...