Investors have become all too depressingly familiar with the headlines: massive write-downs, record quarterly losses and ruined reputations.
These books were a dead loss and they ruined our holiday.
That place doesn't cancel classes for anything thanks to two students who sued the school for loss of tuition and ruined it for the rest of us.
A bolder portfolio of after-the-battle images of death and ruin, pointing not to losses suffered but to a fearsome British triumph over the enemy, was made by another photographer who had visited the Crimean War.
Now these themes of loss, ruin and class envy look set to roll right through the autumn season.
If Berlin was an album about loss, ruin and ghosts, then there's something fitting about the sight of the musician on stage, with grey in his hair and specs on his nose, turning back to re-open the old sores.
The loss and his less-than-stellar performance ruined Van Horn's first professional game in the state of his collegiate glory.
And a loss would probably ruin it".
Breakdown looms, and ruin.
His thought content presented ideas of hopelessness and ruin.
