Word: ruin
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...lines must be drawn on different factors. Race is a particularly useful factor for lining up allegiances, since the Black community no longer trusts the white politicians who have abused them for years, and the white community is afraid that Black politicians will allow their city to fall into ruin...
...these people who start planning for their summer in December? Who has already sent resumes and letters of recommendation? These people really ruin things for the rest...
...always part of their intent. Even the Italian artists dealing with popular imagery in the early '60s, like Mimmo Rotella, lack the bluntness of their American counterparts. Rotella's Marilyn, 1962, a torn poster "found" and peeled from the wall, is partly about abstract expressionist gesture, partly about the ruin of images by time, and not in the least concerned with the shiny newness Pop art liked...
...sitting in the library of the Salem prison, Koskotas recalled the beginnings of a relationship that led to his ruin. He wore a blue pullover sport shirt and blue jeans, white leather sneakers on his feet. Koskotas had squeezed his big waist into a one-armed desk chair...
...among the most notorious. Rising from an impoverished boyhood in Louisiana's woods, Beebe had built, by the early 1980s, a $150 million financial empire that stretched across the Sunbelt. But the brash, stocky financier was actually a ringleader in a network of good ole boys who helped ruin more than a dozen savings institutions by handing out as much as $10 billion in reckless loans -- some of which ended up in Beebe's own pocket. Recalls Beebe's son Ken, who worked for him: "Dad would make a deal with the devil if it looked good...