What set the wrecking-ball swinging after decades of apathy and despair?
Still, for some watchers of telecom stocks, the earnings-wrecking fourth-quarter charges highlight a hitch in the logic that makes both dividend-yielding telecom carriers attractive investments in a low rate environment.
Had Madoff acted selfishly, he would never have dug himself such a life-wrecking hole.
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Yet, after nearly a year's delay, and with the financing almost back on track, it is making preparations to blast off another potentially deal-wrecking missile.
Massive, potentially election-wrecking attacks look less likely, though not impossible.
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For all its tortuous history, that's nothing compared to the competition's head-wrecking format, which welcomes teams at various points from June to February and features four qualifying rounds, a group stage, four more knockout rounds, then a final played in neutral territory.
Whether wrecking the US-Saudi alliance is a good thing or a bad thing, it's unlikely that the current US government recognizes either that it has been destroyed, or that this has happened in large measure as a consequence of the administration's behavior.
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The All Blacks were the first world champions in 1987 and in more recent times Jonah Lomu, now fighting a serious kidney condition which prevents him from playing, has served as a one-man wrecking crew to England's hopes.
Pollard, depending upon your tastes, is either the least-perfect or most-perfect player in the NFL to weigh in on this issue: He has been a one-man wrecking crew during his NFL career, injuring New England Patriots players in particular (Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski and Stevan Ridley are notable victims).
We engaged in a variety of interactive environments, from a flying tour over a digital landscape, waving a wand around to throw a wrecking ball into a Jenga-style tower, and shooting up zombies.
We interacted with in a variety of environments, from a flying tour over a digital landscape, waving a wand around to throw a wrecking ball into a Jenga-style tower, to shooting up zombies.
In today's often sanitised world, the long-standing coastal tradition of wrecking may still live on.
It was Ireland's Trent Johnston who got the ball rolling by wrecking the Bangladesh top order with 3-20 after his skipper William Porterfield had won the toss and elected to field first.
Scanning readers' comments left on the article, I see I am taxed with being an English nationalist and deep-dyed Eurosceptic, bent on wrecking the EU. This puzzles me, sincerely.
Private-equity firms have been accused of wrecking companies since the 1980s, if not before.
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"The whole city was crumbling, and then we elected Ed Koch, " Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday during a ceremony marking the centennial of Grand Central Terminal, a once-crumbling edifice Koch helped save from the wrecking ball.
Over the course of many years, piles of battered fridges, yellowing issues of Life magazine, and burnt-out light bulbs had accumulated around an enormous wrecking yard.
The torrent headed south, following the course of the Indus river, wrecking lives and infrastructure in the heart of Pakistan, Punjab province, and, by-mid week, in Sindh.
It is a depressing state of affairs when about two-thirds of our fellow citizens are caught in an economic trap that is wrecking their lives financially and emotionally.
But look beyond the most energy-intensive sectors, and the notion that high oil prices are quashing demand and wrecking firms is overdone.
Logano managed to finish third despite wrecking into the outside wall after hitting Hamlin, who spun Logano last week at Bristol and sparked a bitter post-race confrontation.
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