Most of the time I think there's no way the two parties will do anything to address the nation's ruinous debt problem.
This crop includes Jody (Ms. Schull) with a lovely face but a weak turn-out, bad feet and the wrong kind of body; Maureen Ms. Prattt), supremely talented but bulimic and miserable; and Eva (Ms. Saldana), also gifted, but with a possibly ruinous attitude problem.
He presided over the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon after an invasion that had generated unprecedented controversy, and he became the first Israeli prime minister to take the difficult steps required to deal with the nation's fundamental economic problems and ruinous inflation.
In those decades parts of plants were built, ripped out and rebuilt because of design and regulatory problems, leading to ruinous costs.
One of the things that makes The Wealth of Nations a good, if lengthy read is that Smith is a masterly critic of the governments of his day and a superb commentator on the problems of reorganising the ruinous state of their public finances.
Aid, including soft loans from the Bretton Woods institutions, may have aggravated the problem by keeping regimes with ruinous policies afloat, thus delaying reform.
"With the ground-water system so shallow and horizontal on Long Island, a leak can migrate very far, very quickly, and if it's under your house, you could potentially be saddled with a very big problem that could be financially ruinous".
That's what makes the deal significant: assuming it is approved by the House, it begins to reverse the ruinous pattern of dealing with Washington's fiscal problems only through spending cuts.
The only problem was that the competition was ruinous for airline profitability.
The coalition might have hoped to evade blame for problems that arise from the financial climate, but after the ruinous row over these reforms, every dropped bedpan will inevitably reverberate back to Whitehall – whether that is desirable or not.
