Party president Tim Farron said it would be "flipping crackers" to abandon the deficit reduction goals, as it would lead to "market chaos" and rising interest rates and unemployment.

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The unions protest, blaming top management for falling productivity, rising loan defaults and organisational chaos.

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With Pakistan descending into chaos, Murrin says the danger is rising that Hindu nationalists will grab control of India and push the region into war.

FORBES: Short the West

The tempo of chaos of the Euro debt crisis is rising.

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But even as the sun was rising on the meeting rooms this morning, chaos was breaking out in New York.

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Public disgruntlement over rising costs and the appeasement of sponsors, predictions of apocalyptic travel chaos, the deployment of rocket launchers on residential rooftops and security failings which even the head of G4S, the company responsible, agreed had been a "humiliating shambles, " had preceded the Games.

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