Word: ruinously
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Where I come from, if an employee embarked on a major initiative without planning for the long run, misrepresented important facts and made ruinous miscalculations, that employee would be fired, along with his management team. MARIANNE GABEL Delaware, Ohio...
...Where I come from, if an employee embarked on a major initiative without planning for the long run, misrepresented important facts and made ruinous miscalculations, that employee would be fired, along with his management team. Marianne Gabel Delaware...
...nuclear question. Although hard-liners have urged defiance of IAEA demands, President Mohammed Khatami's reformists have warned that failure to comply with the IAEA demands, even if they are deemed unfair in Tehran, would put the Islamic Republic in mortal danger, because the consequences of defiance would be ruinous sanctions and even, possibly...
...characters talk endlessly. "The opposite of denial is the tendency to talk too much," says Egoyan. In some of the film's key scenes Raffi and David verbally spar in a darkened room over the contents of Raffi's cans, labeled Exposed Film. Will shining a light inside be ruinous as well as revelatory? Their dialogue is interspersed with brutal images of murder and rape as depicted in the fictional film. In a scene set during the shooting of the internal film, Armenian and Turkish actors are forced to confront the history that they either never learned or learned...
...women of Athens withheld sex from their husbands until they stopped a ruinous war in Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata. Last night, the Athena Theater Company held a reading of the ribald anti-war play to protest possible American military action against Iraq...