Word: ruining
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...constant nudging and ribbing and teasing, our relationship, 24 hours a day, without fail. So when Valentine's Day comes and the stakes get higher, when signs of true love are due like drafts of a thesis, unless you're paying careful attention, you're bound to ruin something...
...Harvard evaluation form, which Green said was filled out by Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck, credits Healy with single-handedly saving the city from financial ruin...
...credit must go to Ross, whose direction is evident in the characterization of all the cast. His interpretation is wonderfully imaginative and hysterically funny. But for all its surreal humor, it never loses sight of the drama. The Revenger's Tragedy is a morality play, showing a society ruin itself through its own appetite for destruction. Had he tried to portray that moral void in a straightforward manner, Ross would have failed. The bloodthirstiness of the story is too much for the modern audience. Instead, somewhere in the final scene--with the chandelier spinning, Luxurioso gorging himself on peas...
...centuries, the idea that the federal debt would be the ruin of America was among the nation's great political hobgoblins -- right up there with the Red Menace and the Yellow Peril. Public indebtedness, said Thomas Jefferson, who spent $27,267,622 of the national treasure to purchase Louisiana, is "the greatest danger to be feared." Herbert Hoover, whose policies helped usher in the Great Depression, declared that "government borrowing . . . is a device to load our extravagance and waste onto the next generation." Eventually, though, as Armageddon kept getting postponed and new generations thrived, the issue receded into the more...
...overcrowded and often tardy shuttles are enough to ruin anyone's day, she says, especially in the cold and wet winter mornings...