Both instinctively understood the ruinous consequences of communism, socialism and excessive government regulation.
She was served by the most formidable spin machine we have seen and aided by outriders who were happy to overlook the ruinous effect of many of her policies because they admired her style and ideology.
It was an era marked by economic dysfunction, lawlessness, rampant corruption and a ruinous war in the southern territory of Chechnya.
Her admirers would describe her as a happy mix of the smart and the muscular; doubters will recall her vote for the ruinous invasion of Iraq in 2003, and prefer the Obama-esque oath to first do no harm.
"It's very depressing and financially ruinous for lavender producers to cultivate plants that are supposed to last 10 years and find them dying within three years," said Chaisse.
Publishing a 180-page report, Myners said the board – currently made up of members of the co-operative movement such as nurses, farmers and public-sector workers – was "stuck in denial" over what he called a "near ruinous" failure of governance, which led to the near-collapse of its bank last year.
He and his wife, Anikó, said they will invest their money cautiously and avoid the ruinous spending splurges of many a lottery winner.
Californians love to tinker with their state's political rules, and over the last century this has generally meant binding the hands of politicians (with, often, ruinous consequences).
A second would have required the Swiss National Bank to buy tons of gold to bring it up to 20% of the country's currency reserves, a bizarre idea that would have been ruinous for the country's monetary policy.
AMERICANS never made up a large portion of Swiss private banks' international client base, but the price to be paid for allowing some of them to evade tax is proving to be steep and could be ruinous for some smaller wealth managers.
Rather, they suffer from a gambling compulsion a ruinous addiction to risk.
