Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...palpable sigh of relief," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. Realizing that the President was back to stay, the Communist-led Russian Duma sent Boris Yeltsin a congratulatory telegram Friday, just one day after subdued Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov finally conceded defeat. Although Zyuganov complained about the "ruinous cost" of Yeltsin's election campaign, which saw the country blanketed in pro-Yeltsin media coverage and festooned with Yeltsin banners, he held out the promise of cooperation, provided the Communists were offered significant posts in the government. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin even hinted that the Communists might capture...
...hidden in a maze of worthwhile legislation. In Russia, Yeltsin earmarks billions of rubles with abandon. In just the past several weeks he has signed a decree giving a $5 billion subsidy to farmers and has said commercial electricity rates will be cut in half. Those big items are ruinous enough, but Yeltsin's aversion to fiscal sanity goes further. In Yaroslavl, for example, he pledged $700,000 to house veterans of the Afghanistan war, $10,000 to help with the housekeeping costs at a convent of the Russian Orthodox Church, $20,000 to build a Muslim cultural center...
More public education is needed about the drug's ruinous effects, which include hallucinations, addiction, depression, paranoia and violent rages. Police report that many of the most brutal crimes are now committed by people using meth. "Maybe the legacy of the three James children can wake up the country to the danger of methamphetamine," says Synicky. "I sure hope...
With or without creativity, Jamison cautions, there is nothing glamorous about manic depression: "It's a horrible disease." In her manic phases, her restless energy helped destroy her first marriage and sent her on financially ruinous shopping sprees. Then, in her blackest despair, she tried to kill herself...
...trouble began with former treasurer Robert Citron, who has since pleaded guilty to misappropriation of funds. Yet the bankruptcy need not have been ruinous. Orange County is vastly rich: its gross economic output of $77 billion is about the same as Greece's. According to a study, the proposed sales-tax increase of a half-cent per dollar would have cost the average resident only $50 a year while reaping $140 million in tax revenue, enough to procure a new loan to cover the county's maturing obligations...