Rising steel prices and a ruinous fire in a shipyard are blamed.
While enduring the dismissal of one lead actor, the heart attack of his replacement, a ruinous typhoon, and a constant struggle with the script, Coppola keeps insisting that his experiences will enrich his movie.
Promoters also capitalize on the fear, particularly among doctors and small businessmen, of a ruinous lawsuit.
In a similar spirit, Rubio has been developing a mainstream plan on immigration, moving away from a ruinous GOP stance.
The report suggests raising taxes but also stop attacking private companies, and reducing a ruinous subsidy on gasoline and to state-run companies.
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The fact is, anyone can get hit with a ruinous legal judgment.
Even a Democratic-controlled Senate would never approve such a ruinous agreement.
Norway imposes a ruinous import levy on cars with big engines.
Mrs Merkel has still never really explained to the German people that they face a choice between a repugnant idea (bailing out their undeserving peers) and a ruinous reality (the end of the euro).
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Yet its bureaucrats insist on a ruinous road-building programme that has the taxpayer shelling out for more road building in 2001 than in 1969, when Japan needed many more motorways and its economy was growing at 10% a year.
If the bank spits out more names, it will reduce its risk of a ruinous U.S. criminal prosecution or of being kicked out of an IRS program--known as the qualified intermediary program--that is essential to its ability to do business internationally.
What if a country with a recent history of ruinous hyperinflation succeeded in beating inflation, in bringing it down to a level broadly consistent with inflation in developed Western markets?
Both crunches have to do with giant industries getting their asset assessment wrong in a systemic and ruinous manner.
It is also because, after a quarter of a century of ruinous war, Afghans are more willing to take help from any hand.
In the 19th century Uruguay's newly-won independence was followed by a prolonged and ruinous conflict between two political factions - the land-owning Blancos (whites) and the urban Colorados (reds).
"The ruinous state of the building was a symbol of the dramatic and disquieting situation of the church herself, " Benedict said.
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Indeed, some couples, when faced with the ruinous financial consequences of divorce during a downturn, may decide it's cheaper to seek counseling and give it another go.
Since the juries that determine those damages sometimes award ruinous sums, firms often find the certainty of spending a little to buy off an ill-founded suit preferable to the risk of financial disaster by contesting it (and consumers end up with more expensive products as a result).
Croesus blames the somnambulant experts on Wall Street, who are supposed to know that GE is half a lending company and thus must be compromised by ruinous credit markets.
There is a prohibition on cultism to prevent any one person from acquiring ruinous power.
If, as supporters believe, this is a new avenue for evangelical campaigning, it is an utterly ruinous one.
Plaintiff lawyers say questions about the validity of economic theories or how to distribute damages should be left for trial, while corporate defendants say most cases never get to trial because once a class has been certified they are forced to settle to avoid potentially ruinous damages.
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Berkowitz drew a portrait of a company where meeting the quarterly earnings targets was everything--a place where the pressure to meet those forecasts drove Enron's managers to making ruinous deals at the last hour, so they could put better-looking numbers in the books.
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