The New York Times reports that BP is set to cough up about $18.7 billion in settlement after 2010's Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico wrecked states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, and Florida.
Medicaid is wrecking state budgets and is set to expand thanks to the Democrats' new health care law.
AFTER all the foreign blood and money spent on trying to turn a poor, wrecked country into a unified state and a functioning democracy, much has been riding on the drawn-out presidential election.
Originally, the pipeline was supposed to cross the Missouri near Bismarck, but authorities worried that an oil spill there would have wrecked the state capital's drinking water.
"If the legislature had deliberately set out to wreck the state's finances, I doubt it could have done a better job," Mr Sundquist lamented.A number of states have decided that, if getting money from the tobacco industry is nice, getting it in one lump sum would be even nicer.
"Chris Hartcher told us we were anarchists trying to wreck the state's economy," Lowrey says.
"Coal is not only wrecking my state," cries Larry Gibson, a local activist whose ancestral home has been surrounded by mountaintop-mining operations.
Here in Massachusetts, residents appeared to be voting down an initiative that would have required universal health care coverage, apparently heeding dire warnings from top figures in the medical establishment that it could wreck the state's health care system.
He said he was amazed that oil from 5,000 feet beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico had somehow wended its way 200 miles to Florida's coast and now floated near the shore, threatening to wreck the state's economy and environment.
In Ireland the collapse of the banks bankrupted the state; in Greece the bankrupt state wrecked the banks.
There are some other games to watch, too, most notably Nebraska at Michigan State (big game in the Big Ten Legends Division race), Oklahoma State at Kansas State (can the Cowboys wreck K-State's national title hopes?), Pitt at Notre Dame (the Irish look to stay perfect) and Arizona at UCLA (a big one in the Pac-12 South).
