Word: ruinously
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...Francis-Jones (whose firm FJMT is overseeing the works with Auckland's Archimedia). In June, his redesign for the Sydney headquarters of the Historic Houses Trust won the top awards of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects; judges praised his "metamorphosis of the 1850s Mint from a cluster of ruinous and neglected shells to a superb ensemble of restored, adapted and invented forms and spaces...
...other developing Asian countries. In Indonesia?a proud member of the OPEC cartel, never mind the fact that it's now a net importer of crude oil?the currency is in free fall and the government is burning through its foreign exchange reserves, thanks to a longstanding and increasingly ruinous policy of providing subsidized fuel to consumers. Gasoline in Jakarta costs a mere 27? per liter; some economists worry that if the government continues to spend an estimated $1 billion a month on fuel subsidies, as it's currently doing, a rerun of the 1998 financial crisis isn't entirely...
...While physical beauty abounds in the wilds of Solomon Islands' Western province, a more realistic eye also settles on the depredations of malaria, the ruinous idleness of youth, the vandalism of greedy loggers, and the frustrating isolation caused by impassable roads. No one lives in this environment without some hardship. Curragh and her Tongan colleagues, Seteone Polutele and 'Isileli Vei Koso, volunteered to be part of the country's Participating Police Force (PPF). Composed of officers from 11 Pacific nations, it's the law-and-order arm of the intervention force known as ramsi, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon...
...architect's walled-in housing proposal as a variation of a college, turning its back on the rest of the world. Hurt's performance in the role, tinged equally with self-pity and pluck, is the production's strongest. Close impeccably portrays a woman whose compassion leads her into ruinous contradictions. Waterston disappoints a bit, wobbling in his accent and never quite finding the passion, only the hysteria, of his man. Jones' smirky hauteur is chilling as his destructive tactics succeed. Both the architect and his nemesis contend that nothing ever changes, and Frayn finds lyric beauty...
...criticisms have their contradictory side: on Capitol Hill, Republicans as well as Democrats denounce Regan for steering the President into an overly combative approach, but the Republicans in almost the same breath go on to accuse him of engineering a ruinous attempt at compromise on the budget. Asked his opinion of Regan, one Republican Senator rolls his eyes and mutters, "Disaster. We go down the tubes if he takes over." Republican Senator Robert Dole carefully chose his words last week on ABC's Good Morning America when asked about the job of getting a budget compromise. "We know...