Word: bankrupting
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...tell the difference between Al ("We're for the people") Gore and George W. ("I trust the people") Bush? Take a look at what each candidate says at this week's debate about how to "save" Social Security. You have probably heard that the popular program will go bankrupt soon, but that's not exactly true. The real problem is that as the baby boomers retire and then live longer than previous cohorts, aid to the elderly will take up more of the budget, leaving little room for other priorities like health care or education. The solution we choose will...
TIME: Why have you written this book? SALINAS: Many Mexicans suffered with the economic crisis in 1995. They lost their mortgaged homes, even their jobs because banks and many companies went bankrupt. They are very angry for what happened, and since the Zedillo government tried to put the blame for this on my term in office, people expressed this anger towards my administration --and towards me. That's why was I believe that I owed the Mexican people an explanation for what happened This book is one step in that direction...
...vote for Ralph is a political Molotov that we need to throw into a corrupt and bankrupt system," Moore said. "It's a wasted vote if you vote for more of the same, which is what you're going to get if you vote for Gore or Bush...
While that brought prosperity to the industrial, consuming nations, it bled the producers. OPEC members watched their petrodollar budgets slide into the red, and other exporters, such as Russia and Mexico, went virtually bankrupt from lost oil revenues. Finally, in the past year, OPEC's members woke up. Why should the West profit from unparalleled prosperity while they drew up austerity plans? They boosted the cost of crude by slowing production, until a barrel fetched nearly $35. Americans, like Europeans, started to grumble at the steady rise in the price they paid to gas up. By summer, U.S. drivers were...
...alert to the fact that the most dramatic moments of the show will come when contestants indulge in melancholy, desperate eating binges, subsequently feel remorse and then frantically run around the jogging track until they vomit and cry. Hooray for anorexia! Cheers for bulemia! It's a morally bankrupt idea and it makes even a cynical bastard like me sort of queasy, but I'm also slightly intrigued by the possibilities of sabotage once the field is narrowed to two or three. Just think of the potential scenarios! Instead of Survivor-esque alliances, you'll have feisty individuals strategically placing...