Word: ruining
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...have its beer and drink it too. Water in the cups means binge drinking isn’t a liability, and Bud on the side means the company can hide the soul of the game with its giant static-decal logos. Put simply, Bud and Miller will ruin the number one college-invented game. Take Beirut out of its natural habitat—dorm rooms and bars—and thrust it into the limelight and you’ve got a product about as interesting as professional pool. Beirut has always been about the atmosphere, the competition...
Still, Cabot House residents said they are determined not to let the flood ruin this year. Others on campus have opened their homes to those in need...
...Ruin of J Robert Oppenheimer
...makes on behalf of Hurricane Katrina’s victims will necessarily look meager next to the billions of dollars that will be spent to save, salvage, and resurrect New Orleans in the coming months and years. Nonetheless, each invaluable life which Harvard rescues from painful disruption or utter ruin represents a laudable success and makes the country a better place...
Then comes what promises to be the most painful part, a process that might be called municipal triage. The foul waters will have plenty of time to ruin houses' and other buildings' insulation and wiring. Masonry structures will probably survive the flooding. The worst hit can be stripped back to the concrete, power washed and resurfaced. But a great many wooden structures--meaning most of the city's housing stock--will be bloated wrecks subject to mildew and collapse...