But far from the mass ruination envisioned by these proselytizers, most of the long-term top-performing investment letters are using the panic to find great buying opportunities.

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And individuals formerly employed by the corporations, including a number of higher-ups as well as more rank-and-file executives and other professionals, face ruination and long prison terms.

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At Ta Prohm, to the northeast of Angkor Wat, strangler figs spill like liquid over 39 temples in various stages of ruination, creating a tangle of tipsy roofs and dark hallways.

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In 2010 the opening of a 4km bridge from the Chinese mainland to the island brought its picturesque villages within easier reach of the usual ruination by land-hungry developers.

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And of course it sky-rockets from there, and it will result in astronomically-high deficits, a tax burden on the next generation and generations to come, and a ruination of our economy.

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But ruination and tragedy give an Eden its depth.

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And the uncertainty is spiking the efforts of Tendai Biti, the MDC man who is the unity government's finance minister, to secure the foreign cash the country sorely needs to recover from Mr Mugabe's ruination of the economy.

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