Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Thursday, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller announced the Carter Administration's plan for salvaging Chrysler, the nation's third largest auto-maker, with a whopping $1.5 billion federally guaranteed loan. The Carter proposal, however, fails to insure that Chrysler will not once again choose the road to ruin...
...league's 25,000 members are aggressively Christian, patriotic, mad as hell and resolved not to take it any more. The nation is on the Interstate to ruin, they feel. And, well, who doesn't these days, what with Soviet troops off the shores of Key West, the dollar sinking like the Lusitania, drug pushers in the schools, homosexuals in the pulpit, bureaucrats in just about everything, and goodness and patriotism generally on the run. Yet Harrell's Louisville pilgrims have converted these common gripes into obsessions...
...Harvard is engaged in the rape of the city because their expansion threatens to ruin the traditional ethnic composition of this community," Mary Ellen Preusser, incumbent council candidate says...
...which one is Novak, explain why we tolerate William Loeb's tarnal foolishness in the Manchester Union Leader, and then put on DeKalb Seed Corn caps and decide which of a dozen self-swollen hot-air balloons is least likely to lead the nation to shame and ruin...
...America's inflation. As long as prices continue climbing at a rate of 13% in the U.S., compared with 6% in West Germany, the dollar will sink and the mark will rise. In such circumstances the dollar is lost, and attempts to save it will only ruin the nation's industry by making such exports as computers, airplanes and chemicals vastly too expensive in Japan or Germany, and imports like autos far too cheap at home. Former Fed Chairman Arthur Burns told the Belgrade conference that the turmoil in world exchange markets would not end until "reasonably good...