Law firm failures have become common, but Big Law failures remain unusual and cataclysmic.
However, he thinks the day could mark the beginning of cataclysmic times introduced by a disaster.
"There was no big cataclysmic event that happened right before I went in, " he added.
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It may, however, have contributed to the politically cataclysmic loss of 18 U.S. servicemen in Mogadishu.
The real monster hiding in the corner is a potential cataclysmic rise in interest expense.
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But such a cataclysmic prospect could also encourage the present government to keep the disinflation programme afloat.
That a few extra pounds in spring training, for a 23-year-old joining a new team, was cataclysmic.
Since April, fears that the euro zone is on the brink of a cataclysmic meltdown have eased somewhat.
During the Cold War, any direct American intervention risked provoking a reaction from the Soviets, possibly a cataclysmic one.
However, theory has held that such novae do not involve such cataclysmic processes that give rise to gamma rays.
Our species hasn't been around long enough to experience a cataclysmic extinction event.
Based on various forecasts of astronomical alignments or cataclysmic events, some people believe the world is ending in 2012.
The aim is to avoid cataclysmic war, or domination by one country, by uniting while still pursuing national advantage.
In the 19th century, after a cataclysmic fire, Chicagoans rebuilt stronger than before.
Think of nuclear fission: it generates useful energy but if it runs out of control you get a cataclysmic explosion.
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G7 club, such an event would be cataclysmic, which may be why financial markets do not seem to expect it.
The reduction in government spending that occurred following World War II would be politically impossible today short of a cataclysmic crisis.
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On a less cataclysmic note, however, all markets overshoot, and new instruments and risk-control techniques, plus new participants, make it more likely.
Even a decade after that cataclysmic event, I still notice a deeper interest in the whole person when business colleagues get together.
There are a number of possible cataclysmic theories circling the Internet.
Volcanoes that change climate enough to affect agriculture round the world are perhaps 100 times rarer than that, and cataclysmic asteroids rarer still.
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No fewer than ten different studies have attempted to assess the bill's economic consequences, with results ranging from the innocuous to the cataclysmic.
At the time of the attacks, few educated Americans born after 1950 had any direct experience of war or persecution or cataclysmic failure.
In any case, if you think that only liberal economists believe going over the debt ceiling is dangerous and potentially cataclysmic you are mistaken.
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The White House was aided by a media eager to breathlessly report cataclysmic scenarios of airport security delays, furloughed meat inspectors, and shuttered park lands.
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The years from 2000 to 2010 saw cataclysmic shifts in everything from digital communication to the state of the economy to beliefs in American invulnerability.
Barring any unseen cataclysmic events, these so-called mass affluent investors are the people who could be taking you out of your stocks at higher prices.
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"Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster, " it said.
The battles in front of the walls of Troy are cataclysmic and frightening, and the duels are fought out in the open, in clear space.
Steel in her eyes, she speaks of more conflict to come, of a great tech reckoning that will unleash cataclysmic consolidation in a Slow New World.
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