Word: disasterous
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Philadelphia has long held a special place in American affections as a cradle of liberty. Now the nation's fifth largest metropolis (pop. 1.5 million) seems about to win a new reputation -- as the first major U.S. city to go to the verge of fiscal collapse since Boston hit the...
First it was $100 billion, then $200 billion, $500 billion, and now it's $1 trillion or more. As estimates of the cost mounted for the bailout of the savings and loan industry, a taxpayer's only consolation was that at least commercial banks were safe and sound. Or were...
At first, it sounded like a major marketing disaster in the making. Last December, only three months after the highly touted Lexus LS400 luxury sedan had been introduced in the U.S., Toyota announced the recall of all 8,000 cars it had sold at that point. The news sent a...
In the next cot an elderly Sri Lankan woman shakes uncontrollably, her frail body racked by thirst, hunger and the blistering heat. "I've never seen anything like this," says Dr. Khaled Abu-Halimeh of the Jordanian Red Crescent Society, who treats 60 patients a day in the makeshift medical...
I too can remember a time--right after I received my acceptance letter--that I would actually hope to be asked the college question, just so I could say the H-word. Over a year later, though, the mere mention of Harvard foretells conversational disaster.