Word: bankrupts
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These textual complaints might seem petty, but they are indicative of the overall sloppiness which taints A Voice of One's Own. The book is a chatty, slipshod survey of contemporary writing women, and its academic claims are bankrupt. Failed promise makes A Voice of One's Own absolutely infuriating. Pearlman and Henderson spent precious time talking with these accomplished women and produced mostly...
...Bankrupt Address...
What Kerrey brings to the party is the fact that he is already on the ballot everywhere. A hobbled Kerrey is like a bankrupt airline whose only assets are airport gate slots. An announced Cuomo-Kerrey strategy signals that a vote for ^ Kerrey is a vote for Kerrey as Vice President, only. When the time comes, Kerrey's support is converted to Cuomo votes. Before then, it is Cuomo-the- challenger rather than Bush-the-incumbent who adopts a Rose Garden strategy. The dutiful Governor sticks to Albany during the week, tending to New York business as Kerrey tours...
...Black Monday-Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-SDI-Ivan Boesky-Trump Tower-Trump Palace-Trump Castle decade. The decade of Nancy Reagan's $200,000 china, the Pentagon's $640 toilet seat, the country's $200 billion budget deficits. A shamelessly materialistic decade. An irresponsible decade. A morally bankrupt decade...
...imprudent affair, and her punishment is to be assigned to investigate crummy outfits like Catchprice Motors. Maria is rapidly losing her illusions: "She knew already what she would find if she audited this business: little bits of crookedness, amateurish, easily found. The unpaid tax and the fines would then bankrupt the business...