Word: haplessness
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Donald Trump is not alone in his misery. Hapless borrowers, crushed by debts they assumed during the go-go 1980s, have made the term "cash crunch" a byword of the '90s. The average U.S. company is so loaded down with loans that it must spend fully 50% of its pretax earnings on interest payments, vs. 32% in 1980. "The major issue facing the nation is that people and companies can't live off debt indefinitely," says Louis Masotti, a professor at the Stanford and Northwestern business schools...
...ranked Crimson (12-0 overall, 5-0 Ivy) made quick work of the hapless Big Red (6-5, 1-4), 13-1, en route to its second consecutive victory against an Ivy League opponent. Like Brown, Cornell was over-powered, outmanned, outplayed...and completely outclassed...
Rowing downstream into a slight cross-headwind, the Crimson decided to forego the sprint and conserve energy for Sunday's races, realizing the Compton Cup was safely in hand. The Crimson finished Saturday's race a solid length-and-a-half ahead of Princeton, with a hapless MIT trailing somewhere in Harvard's wake...
...marketing monster called Earth Day lumbers toward April 22, hapless journalists in its path are desperately dodging a barrage of press kits, news ( releases and alerts. Thousands of Earth Day happenings, from ladybug releases and the building of garbage monuments to corporate "We love the environment too" advertising campaigns, have become an undifferentiated blur as everyone tries to wave the green flag at once. Nobody is against Earth Day, but the very breadth of this looming mega-event raises the question: What's the point...
Loyola and Maryland are sure to mount more of an attack against the Crimson than did the hapless Minutewomen. The issue was never in doubt as Harvard quickly jumped out to a commanding 4-0 lead four minutes into the game...