Then, in the opening act of the financial meltdown of 2008, her firm collapsed underneath her.
Huge blocks of ice calved off and collapsed into tidal waves of icy slush.
The government seized Superior in 2000 after it collapsed because of poor lending practices and shoddy bookkeeping.
Long dependent on finicky foreign capital to stimulate growth, emerging markets have often collapsed when capital left.
Work has now been completed to realign and level a dozen collapsed gravestones and control overgrown vegetation.
But too many allowances were issued over the past few years - and the market price collapsed.
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She collapsed in her cell, bleeding, and survived only because a prison guard discovered her.
When the Warsaw Pact disbanded and the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO had fulfilled its role.
In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher's government ended a system of this sort and film investment collapsed.
Let's say Armageddon did occur, and CMOs and CDOs all collapsed in a mighty crash.
Laurence River, collapsed in 1907, killing 86, and collapsed again in 1916 killing 11 more.
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Primark occupied a floor of the collapsed building and workers there were suppliers to the brand.
Survivors flooded the streets helping to dig their neighbors out from under collapsed homes.
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This was also the time when fisheries had collapsed in Newfoundland, signaling a crisis in cod.
The trial collapsed after 16 weeks when it became clear police evidence was unreliable.
At least 1, 127 people died when the eight-storey Rana Plaza collapsed on 24 April.
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Both of the mosques were badly damaged, and the roof of one of them collapsed.
Many bodies were found Monday under a collapsed stairwell, said Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.
Three office buildings collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro at around 8:30 pm last night.
The Chaddesden school's head teacher Phil Dover said repairs such as replacing collapsed drains were urgent.
Brit reportedly collapsed shortly after midnight from partying or exhaustion, foreshadowing the rest of her year.
When the economies of the West collapsed in 2008, it was blamed on a credit crunch.
Long-term effects of injecting heroin include collapsed veins, loss of appetite and severe constipation.
Thus the number vehicles sold collapsed, but retail sales of vehicles fell on slightly.
But I could not come out, and another girl was killed as the building collapsed.
In my view, that was the moment the declaration of war as a constitutional imperative collapsed.
It was shut last week after part of the route near Grey Mare's Tail collapsed.
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It collapsed at about 09:00 local time (03:00 GMT), during the morning rush hour.
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