Word: ruinously
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...bring down foreign barriers that unfairly hinder exports. It is a delicate game. The threat of new protectionist measures by the U.S. can sometimes be used to induce other nations to drop their barriers, which are often insufferably high. Yet the enactment of those measures could be ruinous...
Chrysler, which insists that it cannot afford higher wages, wants its Canadian employees to return to work and then relume negotiations in January, as U.S. employees have agreed to do. A lengthy strike "will be extremely damaging to the company and potentially ruinous," says Vice President Thomas Miner...
...arrived. The cars bear testimony to hard times. In the '70s, the boom years, those cars would have been new. Now only an occasional '82 Buick Regal or Chrysler Le Baron gleams hopefully among older Coupe de Villes, Torinos and Caprice Classics. A Thunderbird stands in ruinous decay next to the embarrassing glint of a new Toyota. An ancient Ford station wagon, held together by spit and masking tape, boasts a bumper sticker that says: THUMBS UP FOR MICHIGAN...
...nightmare is both grim and grimly plausible. A ruinous new energy crisis once again doubles or triples oil prices. Economies are battered, and governments around the world topple. In the U.S., business goes into a slump that can be compared only with the Great Depression...
Braniff badly needed the wage deferral assistance from its employees to ease a sudden and potentially ruinous cash crunch. The trouble arose when approximately $9 million worth of Braniff tickets were unexpectedly presented for redemption by the airline industry's ticket clearing house. The clearing house operates like a kind of back-office ticket exchange, allowing reservation agents for one airline to accept tickets for fares written by another carrier...