As the CEO of a global business, we faced head-on the 2008 financial melt down.
If there is negative news then there is melt down in the share prices.
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When markets melt down, investors tend to abandon speculative stocks and head for safer destinations.
France has had to melt down 9m ten-cent coins, after the European Blind Union said they were confusing.
Nothing tests the mettle of a value investor like watching a large portfolio holding slowly and steadily melt down.
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But then they would melt down the old and reissue them debauched with increasing portions of less precious metal alloys.
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The system needed to melt down and extrude the reminder of the last batch before moving on to the new spools.
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But while there was gridlock in some corners, the Internet did not melt down under the demand, as some had predicted.
The answer is clear to space physicists and electrical engineers: it would blow out transformers and melt down our computer systems.
The fuel cannot melt down in a thorium reactor because it is already molten, and reactions slow down as it cools.
But if the gold price falls a lot, he can always melt down the bars to make a really big crown.
If markets push them into insolvency, the euro zone would melt down.
Ups and downs in financial crisis in Europe but no melt down.
So we know that we're likely to melt down when things get hectic, but what exactly are we supposed to do with that information?
Fear and risk aversion rule the short term reaction to nuclear melt down in Japan, the 3rd largest economy in the world.
If Cyprus's banks melt down and the economy of 800, 000 people collapses, it is really too small to hurt the rest of Europe directly.
Sooner or later, something will break, burn up, or melt down.
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.
In the midst of an already tense tax season, taxpayers had a brief moment of worry last night when the online system for TurboTax appeared to melt down.
Beginning with the aggressively hyped 1988 U.S. Senate hearings he organized, no one has done more to melt down complacent minds with stoked-up claims of fossil-fueled climate peril.
The nuclear plant sited near a popular Pacific Ocean beach might melt down the way the Fukushima plant did after the March 2011 tsunami in Japan, activists fear.
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Shunned by investors on Monday on fears that the nuclear crisis going on in Japan, as reactors explode and melt down after the horrendous earthquake and ensuing tsunami damaged cooling capacities, stocks from uranium miners to generator designers to plant builders have topped the charts for biggest losers.
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In like manner, I believe that reactors should be designed such that an earthquake of any magnitude could not destroy the reactor or its containment shell, further that if the reactor core was to start to melt down, the melt down itself would shut the reactor down and, at the very worst, the reactor would entomb itself with no potential release of radiation into the environment.
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One sterling idea was to buy silver riyal coins and melt them down into ingots.
Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it.
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.
But this often made things worse, because the depreciation took the value of small coins below the point at which it paid to melt them down.
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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.
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.
But the recovery, critics say, given the depths of the worldwide economic melt-down of 2008, is far too anemic, and job growth too stunted, all because of cumbersome, growth-stifling laws and policies.
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