A spectacular and highest-scored free skate, in which he cleanly landed an Olympic-record five of the six quadruple jumps he attempted, elevated him to fifth overall, leaving him with the burden of wondering what might have happened if he had skated a little better in that ruinous short program.
Again, this argues against carbon dioxide emissions being the primary driver of global temperature, and argues against economically ruinous "progressive" programs to restrict carbon dioxide emissions.
Beyond that, nightmare tales abound on the Internet of hapless small businesses badgered by sales representatives into ruinous online discount programs, and harassed by obnoxious coupon customers.
It would involve enough revenue to forestall ruinous cuts in domestic programs.
Eight years of "conservative" government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance.
Luckily for him, this program has meant he has avoided a potentially ruinous criminal record.
If the US is wise, it will avoid being stampeded into yet another ruinous Middle Eastern war based on exaggerated fears about alleged weapons programs.
A program called diversion was supposed to spare low-level offenders the ruinous consequences of a criminal record.
In speeches across the Midwest, Reno inveighed against "the destructive program of the usurers"—by which he meant, of course, the ruinous policies of Wall Street and the banking industry.
The ruinous war in Iraq, huge budget deficits and deep cuts in domestic programs have undermined our nation's infrastructure and our ability to respond to disasters at home.
