Word: ruinously
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...army, claiming that it is fighting to "liberate" the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of territory occupied by Israel that Hizballah claims is part of Lebanon but which the UN regards as part of Syria. Still, Hizballah has been careful in recent years to avoid provoking Israeli retaliations so ruinous to Lebanon that they might provoke a Lebanese backlash against the militant group. They have also long been concerned to avoid being seen as a proxy of Iran or anyone else, and from a distance, Tuesday's crowds were indistinguishable from an anti-Syria rally because instead of the yellow banners...
...matter of lives. But if privatizers continue to throw around figures like ineptly-aimed darts, they will continue to present confusing and conflicting assessments of the Social Security problem. Yet, if the Democrats and their supporters do not step up to challenge them, Congress will likely end up advocating ruinous policies that will, decades hence, leave some Americans without the guaranteed income which Social Security would have furnished. We sympathize with the desire that all Americans own equity, but no program with that aim should ever come at the cost of an anemic Social Security...
...Desert. If Abbas were ever to replace Arafat, Sharon later concluded, he was a man Israel could do business with. That expectation is about to be put to the test. Seven years after their first meeting, Sharon and Abbas may have an opportunity to bring an end to the ruinous conflict between their peoples. Among many Israelis and Palestinians, the election of Abbas as Palestinian President on Jan. 9 stirred hopes of a chance to revive the peace process. But the mood of optimism was shattered, at least temporarily, when Palestinian militants last Thursday killed six Israelis at a freight...
...both leaders, the crisis presents an early measure of whether their mutual respect and shared reputation for pragmatism can bring an end to the ruinous conflict between their peoples. There appears to be a reservoir of goodwill between the men that should eventually bring them together to discuss ways to overcome the violence. Sharon has long treated Abbas, the first P.L.O. member he ever agreed to meet, with a level of respect he never showed Arafat. At peace talks in Wye River, Md., in 1998, Sharon refused to shake Arafat's hand and pointedly ignored him--but he chatted amicably...
...assumed that he would plot a moderate course for America. We hoped he would be what he’d promised to be: a uniter, not a divider. He wasn’t. The neo-conservative path he plotted for America led this country into the midst of a ruinous deficit and an environment of fear...