Word: ruinously
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...believe, what follows is a recognition of the amazing diversity in the ways humans have chosen to express the feeling. The cartoon images of cavemen bopping cavewomen over the head and dragging them home by their hair? Love. Helen of Troy, subjecting her adopted city to 10 years of ruinous siege? Love. Romeo and Juliet? Ditto. Joe in Accounting making a fool of himself around the water cooler over Susan in Sales? Love. Like the , universe, the more we learn about love, the more preposterous and mysterious it is likely to appear...
...these are big ifs. This would require a dramatic shift in the orientation that we apply to most welfare programs, which attack the symptoms and not the virus. We cannot dismiss out of hand the opportunity Norplant presents, but neither can we ignore the challenge. The consequences could be ruinous if we do not prove...
...bring in as much money as he expects. In short, he will not necessarily be bound by the specifics of his many proposals. That attitude could serve a President well up to a point; it is certainly preferable to a stubborn refusal to change come hell, high water or ruinous deficits. But it could too easily degenerate into a confusing and self-defeating backing and filling...
...this one." The role model here is Shakespeare's Iago, insidiously, malevolently and falsely poisoning Othello's mind against his faithful wife Desdemona. These are the lies people fear and resent the most, statements that will not only deceive them but also trick them into foolish or ruinous courses of behavior. Curiously, though, lying to hurt people just for the hell or the fun of it -- the Iago syndrome -- is probably quite rare. Though Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote influentially about Iago's "motiveless malignity," the play itself does not really support this judgment. Iago has a motive, all right...
American insists that it merely wants to bring order to a chaotic fare system that discouraged air travel and encouraged ruinous price wars. Under its old system, American and other carriers offered as many as 200 types of fares and discount plans for any given route, a system that most travelers * found confusing and unfair. "Everybody will benefit from this new plan," says Robert Crandall, the company's aggressive chairman, who pioneered innovations like frequent-flyer programs and supersaver fares...