Given the entanglement of international debts and loans, one or two small countries actually defaulting could well create another financial melt-down similar to what followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.

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After all of the histrionics about a global financial melt-down, when you finally did what the President and his echoes in the media told you to do, risk premiums barely moved.

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France has had to melt down 9m ten-cent coins, after the European Blind Union said they were confusing.

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NASA's scientists have designed a device that would be carefully sterilised, and would then melt its way down through the ice, allowing the melt-water to freeze behind it to prevent contamination.

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As the CEO of a global business, we faced head-on the 2008 financial melt down.

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As recently as the 1950s a character called Frank the Frame Burner drove his horse and cart around London collecting cast-off 19th-century gilt frames to melt down.

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Top off your visit with melt-in-your-mouth fresh sushi for breakfast as another morning winds down in Tsukiji.

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Jasper town is nestled in the middle of the national park, where icy glaciers tumble down towering rocky peaks and melt to form wild, white water-choked rivers that cut through pine-filled valleys.

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Imagine if you were a super-villain who had taken control of all the world's gold, and had decided to melt it down to make a cube.

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