Word: destructive
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...back amounts that will reach almost half of their incomes. It's a kind of economic slavery, and it can't be sustained." Granted, not many share that dire outlook. Just because Spain can't continue growing like it has doesn't mean its economy will catastrophically self-destruct. "Our central scenario is a soft landing," says Claude Giorno, who analyzes the Spanish economy for the o.e.c.d.; he sees the construction market slowing gradually rather than collapsing. But even he concedes that future growth must come from somewhere...
...Tell” in kindergarten. I dressed him in drag a lot too. Sexiest physical trait: My ashy elbows. Favorite part about Harvard: The people. Least favorite part about Harvard: The people. Describe yourself in three words: Unattractively mean spirited. In 15 minutes you are: Going to self-destruct. In 15 years...
...side courts are tougher, even cruel: you can watch players self destruct at close range, watch them staring into the racquets as if that would made them invisible. Walking to Court 6 , I was just in time to watch Tobias Summerer implode in a winnable match against Ivan Ljubicic, the 18th seeds. Three reckless shots cost him the second set, while his lone fan tried to encourage him in German, although not too loudly. Ljubicic looked like he was mad at everyone; his serve was just vicious and its force drew occasional gasps from the crowd...
Curcumin, best known for lending turmeric and curry powder their yellow hue, may also fend off disease, according to a study in Cancer. In lab tests at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, curcumin inhibited the growth of melanoma cells and caused tumor cells to self-destruct...
...some point this gloomy thought apparently stole over the movie's creators too. The film's miscreants, a heathen religious cult that has an incredibly vast secret underground headquarters in the middle of London, use a drug that so twists the minds of their victims that they self-destruct rather than endure the hallucinations it induces. These in turn become occasions for the special-effects displays that are technically impressive but are also more resonant of other recent movie successes of Young Sherlock Producer Steven Spielberg than they are terrifying or witty or appropriate. The old-fashioned heart...