Word: shattering
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...real estate investments and unable to persuade its jittery creditors to keep lending it money--filed for bankruptcy protection. It was the largest bankruptcy ever in the U.S., but the really big news was what happened afterward. First came a financial panic that threatened to shatter the global capitalist order, followed by an unprecedented--and unprecedentedly expensive--effort by governments on both sides of the Atlantic to patch things...
...Treasury Department pointedly refused to bail the company out, and no other Wall Street outfit was willing to step into the breach. It was the largest bankruptcy ever in the U.S., but the really big news was what happened afterward. First came a financial panic that threatened to shatter the global capitalist order, then came an unprecedented, and unprecedentedly expensive, effort by governments on both sides of the Atlantic to patch things...
...program for highly enriched uranium (HEU), while Bush Administration officials, such as John Bolton - one of the so-called neocons, then serving as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs - wanted to use it (and did) as "the hammer I had been looking for to shatter" the nuclear deal done by the Clinton Administration, as Bolton once put it. Once the U.S. re-engaged with North Korea under Bush, the CIA walked back a bit from its assessment that Pyongyang had a secret uranium-enrichment program, saying during a congressional hearing in 2007 that the intelligence community...
...live at home, but her parents will not have the right to make decisions on her behalf for two months, at which time the case will be reviewed. Had her plans not been put on hold, Dekker, whose trip would take two years, would have been on track to shatter the world record for the youngest solo trip around the world, which was broken on Thursday by Mike Perham, 17, from the U.K. But now the Dutch court will have to judge just how young is too young to face the physical and emotional strain of setting out alone...
...years. Millions of dollars have been spent in laborious conservation and cataloguing of the works. A sleek new museum, completed last April, is scheduled to open to the public in November. The museum will display tens of thousands of Timbuktu's books to the world, and, its backers hope, shatter any lingering notion that Africa has no historic literary tradition of its own. (Read: "The U.N.'s World Digital Library...