Word: ruin
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...telling American workers that the American automobile industry has got to give way to other things. Auto workers would never go along with such a move. For American workers, losing a job is a recipe for financial ruin--inadequate unemployment compensation, no re-training and lost health insurance. Thus, they resist adjustment, innovation and dynamism...
...admission of failure, and besides, it exhausted him. "Why don't you just turn on some music?" As soon as he pushed on the radio, wakefulness would wash over him in a wave, making him even more upset. "Why don't you just take some pills?" He did. They ruin his mood the next day, he claims, but at least he has a medical excuse...
...literary disaster, it sometimes seems that stories about his arch-opposite just can't miss. Presumably there is a sound theological basis for all this: virtue could hardly be considered virtuous if it were also indisputably fun, while a patently offensive Old Nick would have trouble procuring the ruin of souls...
...funniest request was for us not to wear tons of Harvard stuff when we're in Japan," said Vollmer, who sensed "vehement opposition" on the part of the University. "I figure it's an easy enough request to follow, and we don't want to ruin this for next year's guys, so we said, 'Okay...
...Indians, a day for offering thanks) and rarely move beyond Care-Bears sentimentality. This built-in ickiness is a pity, since it tends to overshadow the symbolic significance of Thanksgiving, that most unrepentantly old- fashioned of American celebrations, that patriotic heirloom that nobody has figured out a way to ruin...