The cost of litigation alone (leaving aside any potential damages) may cause significant damage to a startup, including reductions in staff, changes to its products or services, or even a collapse of the business itself.
And that is why, through this fee and broader reforms that we seek, our goal is not to punish Wall Street firms, but rather to prevent the abuse and excess that nearly caused the collapse of many of these firms and the financial system itself.
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Of course, the currency collapse that triggered the slump was itself ample proof of how helpless nations are before the tidal waves of global capital.
The collapse of the global trade talks may itself worsen the backlash.
But the virus itself cannot be the sole cause of colony collapse disorder.
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But Germany's foreign minister said Tuesday that Pakistan had "a few days" to raise the billions of dollars it needed to keep itself from financial collapse.
Perhaps that tranformation will manifest itself, among other ways, by precipitating the collapse of the All-Volunteer Force, as many of those who are currently serving decline to do so, and fewer and fewer new, high-quality recruits enlist.
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Current and former Better Place officials said that poor execution of the company's strategy rather than the technology itself was the root cause of the company's collapse.
For example, Iraq has not found itself with masses of internally displaced persons and international refugees, starvation, a collapse of the currency, destruction of the oil fields, the firing of Scud missiles against Israel or Saudi Arabia, or widespread inter-communal violence.
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If you were to assume that every point in the universe contained some information, then even a small office would be so densely packed with particles that it would collapse in on itself like a black hole, says Raphael Bousso, a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
The collapse of the single market, which has done more than anything else to knit Europe together, would threaten the EU itself.
As things stand today, the group that positioned itself as Obama's chief defender in the American Jewish community is teetering on the verge of collapse.
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