Word: ruining
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...Please, God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs which disturb and ruin my work." A prayer by Shlomo Eliahu, an Israeli rabbi, to help men guilty of Internet-related sins. He recommends that penitents install the prayer on their computer desktops...
...women, there are no magical routes to arousal. So far, Viagra-type drugs haven't worked for them. On the contrary, an indifferent partner who suddenly becomes amorous can ruin a relationship. Divorce lawyers talk these days about Viagra affairs and split-ups. Some doctors are prescribing testosterone as a libido booster for so-called low-T women, helping push up testosterone sales some 17 times in the past decade to about $400 million annually. Variously given as a pill combined with estrogen or as a patch, cream or injection, testosterone remains unproven as a sex aid. Meanwhile...
...passion anymore, including women. When I really like someone a whole lot, I've got to marry her or stay friends. One of my best friends was Ava Gardner. And I never attempted to make love with her because I didn't want to do anything to ruin our wonderful friendship...
...reckoning. Crushed by debt that far exceeded his annual income, Choi was forced to sell his house to pay off some of the card companies, but he still owed $113,000. A few weeks ago, he decided to break the pattern that had precipitated his financial ruin. He took scissors to his credit cards but seems reluctant to part with the plastic shards?they rest in a trash can in a dusty basement office from which Choi, a father of two, sells bowling balls online while waiting for the next round of creditors to call. "It wasn't easy...
...unveiling of your firm's grandest project yet, the one that will cement--or ruin--your international reputation. And you hope and pray no one notices your work. For acoustics designers like Yasuhisa Toyota, success arrives when an audience is rapt in the music, oblivious to the complicated physics it takes to project a Beethoven symphony with warmth and clarity. Toyota is the director of Nagata Acoustics, a tiny Tokyo company that has just completed a plum assignment: collaborating with architect Frank Gehry on the long-awaited $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened to critical praise...