• Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.

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  • During South Korea's financial collapse, the banks agreed, after pressure from governments, to restructure short-term credit lines.

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  • But no, in the interest of full transparency, we had Bernanke warning about how the Fed expected still more negative pressure ahead from the housing collapse, worsening labor markets, a credit crunch that may have still more shoes to drop, and revealing that the Fed was also beginning to worry about the potential for rising inflation.

    FORBES: Enough With The Fed's Transparency Already

  • The government has come under public pressure to take action after the Rana Plaza collapse, the country's worst industrial disaster.

    WSJ: Local Officials Punished Over Building Collapse In Bangladesh

  • Without such U.S. pressure, Clinton fears the stalled peace process will completely collapse.

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  • When nuclear fusion uses up a star's fuel, in the central high-pressure stellar core where fusion occurs, the star will collapse fairly violently.

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  • With international pressure over its nuclear program mounting, and the recent collapse of its latest round of negotiations with the West, this might seem like a strange time for Iran to pick a fight with its neighbors.

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  • The moves come as the world's largest retailers face pressure to increase their oversight of factory conditions in Bangladesh following a building collapse on April 24 that killed more than 1, 110 workers there.

    WSJ: Trade group slams safety pact for Bangladesh

  • It was the belief that Mr Trimble could go no further without causing his own political demise and the collapse of the province's government that forced the British and Irish governments to start exerting pressure on the republicans.

    ECONOMIST: Where next in Ulster?

  • The former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland was awarded his title for "services to banking" in 2004, but pressure has been mounting for it to be withdrawn over his role in the bank's subsequent collapse.

    BBC: Miliband accuses PM of 'smug complacency' over economy

  • According to Alexei Yablokov, a noted scientist who used to advise President Boris Yeltsin on ecology and now heads a pressure group, Russia's security services remember and resent the role that greens played in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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  • April's collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza, one of the world's worst industrial accidents, has put pressure on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government to address concerns about working conditions in Bangladesh.

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  • Ahead of the three-day trip, a leaked PA report for international donors urged them to pressure the Israeli government to release its revenues, warning of a "possible slide into institutional and political collapse".

    BBC: Israel to resume transfer of PA tax revenue

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