Word: bankrupting
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grain-price increases that would raise the cost of the region's dairy goods and disruption of transport patterns that could bankrupt a number of businesses...
...feeling that style, for Cukor, counts for more than it is worth. Moreover, he knows it. So he compromises. He pleads sympathy for bankrupt dreams on the condition that those dreams not be indulged. And he makes a sketch-book movie of daydreams gone aglimmering...
...Nonetheless, there were rumors that trouble for his Conservative government might be brewing in the financial world. Last summer Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Reginald Maudling was obliged to resign after police launched an investigation into the affairs of an architect named John Poulson, who had declared himself bankrupt with debts of $595,000. Maudling's association with Poulson was apparently innocent, but the harsh political reality was that he could not remain in the government as Home Secretary while police-under his jurisdiction-were looking into the case...
...sources of income were open to moral questioning, but we reminded him that there are extremes; that if we cannot distinguish between morally outrageous and morally questionable activity, then we need not have committees to make a show of moral concern. His reasoning on this point was morally bankrupt...
...very real sense, the president is correct. But the Nixon administration, not the American system, is on trial for the Watergate crimes. It is the Nixon administration that is bankrupt, and it is the Nixon administration that must answer to the charges of organizing, approving and then -- incredible as it may seem -- operating the largest political espionage network in the country outside of the Central Intelligence Agency...