Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production quotas. Said a Japanese oil trader stationed in the gulf region: "First and foremost, this netback scheme is a warning to OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers that they must all take coordinated action or the Saudis will go further." As if in confirmation, Yamani warned that a ruinous price war could develop by next spring unless OPEC members stuck to official quota and price agreements and other producers restricted their output...
Dores is an impressionist expert at a London auction house who has been sent to New York to help increase business in that prestigious and lucrative field. In town just long enough to establish a ruinous double love life, he is ordered to the Deep South to close a deal for some Sisleys and Vuillards belonging to a crusty old patriarch named Loomis Gage. For Gage, read Snopes; Henderson is soon in far beyond his depths of courage or cunning with this moody, devious clan. The old man's fortune comes from some patents he took out on parking...
After years of rolling on what seemed like an unstoppable joyride, the personal computer industry is going through a bumpy stretch of slowing growth, sagging profits and ruinous competition. Rough times have arrived for almost everyone in the business, from computer manufacturers and retailers to the semiconductor companies, which supply the microchips that make the machines work...
...that confronted two black South African actors several years ago in Baltimore: ordered by a revolutionary organization in their home country to withdraw from a U.S. drama festival as a protest against their government, they had to choose between the punitive wrath of South African officials and the equally ruinous ostracization by their peers. Bonafede's narrative does little more than state the problem with heartbreaking clarity. But his crisp, clever dialogue, enhanced by the enchanting performances of Tom Wright and Delroy Lindo, brings out all the poignancy of an enforced privacy for those vulnerable people whose life is, above...
...such knowledge can hardly hurt. It is helpful, for instance, to understand that Piers Aubrey, who has deserted his wife and four children shortly before This Real Night opens, was not simply "a gambler" as he is subsequently described, but a crusading newspaper editor with a penchant for ruinous plunges in the stock market. Members of his family mourn the disappearance of a good man and suffer at the realization that his reason for departing was accurate: they are better off financially without...