Word: ruinous
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...pumping his country's vast oil wealth into impressive reforms; Argentina's Arturo Illia is struggling with inflationary troubles in the best-fed nation in Latin America; and Brazil's Humberto Castello Branco seems to be starting his gigantic country back toward order after toppling a ruinous leftist regime. But there is genuine excitement in Peru. What is going on there under Belaúnde lights a path ahead for the entire spiny west coast of South America from Colombia to Chile...
...jumping, the Crimson's traditional Achilles heel, was ruinous. The Crimson leapers fared even worse than usual on Middlebury's big fifty meter jump. Bob Livermore turned in the best Crimson performance coming in twenty-sixth...
...president of a giant sugar company--which depends on the government to control its foreign sugar supply; the chairman of a drug company--which makes an unusually high profit each year from sales of its tetracycline to the government; and the president of a textile firm--protected from ruinous foreign competition by a high tariff...
...Techniques. As protection against a ruinous misjudgment this year, the individual pollster has only the techniques he has developed or borrowed from his colleagues over the years. They vary considerably from pollster to pollster...
...costs $149.75. Dishonest and fraudulent claims have risen steadily, and juries seem as quick to give out generous awards as state insurance commissions are slow to allow rate increases. As if all these troubles were not enough, the industry has contributed to its dilemma by engaging in a ruinous rate...