This more limited mindset to entrepreneurism is slowly crumbling in the current economic environment.
The second problem is that preventing crumbling in one place may accelerate it elsewhere, so that sea walls merely relocate erosion instead of preventing it.
Whether it was a freak accident or the result of mismanagement, the Amuay fire solidified the concept that Pdvsa had become a rotten hulk crumbling in on itself.
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The first had been in 1898, against Spain, whose remaining empire was crumbling in the face of popular revolts in two of its colonies, Cuba and the Philippines.
When the financial world was crumbling in 2008, investments from Warren Buffett were seen as a crucial vote of confidence for the likes of General Electric and Goldman Sachs.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- With the Iraqi regime crumbling in major cities and small villages, international aid agencies urgently pleaded Wednesday for access and security amid a critical medical and humanitarian situation.
Neighbourhoods such as Parkhead and Shettleston are more desolate, with rows of once-grand Edwardian houses crumbling in picturesque decay, and empty lots and derelict shops a stone's throw from city-centre streets that boast the highest rents in Scotland.
To save cash he and ten friends rented 10, 000 square feet in a crumbling warehouse in downtown Los Angeles.
Treat (Ben Foster) and Phillip (Tom Sturridge) live together in a crumbling row house in Philadelphia.
Rents were cheap in the crumbling tenement blocks in Prenzlauer Berg, Mitte and, later, Friedrichshain.
One of the most prestigious is the Rafael Trejo - a courtyard surrounded by crumbling buildings in the heart of Old Havana.
Kenyan Mary Keitany's blistering first-half at last year's New York marathon is a good example it was followed by a crumbling pace in the second half.
They were only authorized to travel from Castle Greyskull to their handful of crumbling encampments in the countryside, where they would languish in the desert.
He much approves of the 18th-century English aristocrat who moved out of his crumbling pile in order to admire, from his new house on the hill, how quickly wild nature took control of the elegant rooms he had lived in.
Despite some of the best players in the game crumbling under the pressure of facing Woods in previous final-day showdowns for a title, Yang kept his cool to clinch the win.
Why should our children be allowed to study in crumbling, outdated schools?
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We ought to agree on investments in crumbling roads and bridges, and we should agree on tax breaks for making homes more energy-efficient -- all of which will put more Americans to work.
Though Boncompagni says she got her idea in the summer of 2007, when the market neared its peak, she sets her story in a crumbling economy: banks fail, hedge funds go under, and the government steps in.
In 1926 Loomis bought a huge, crumbling mock-Tudor mansion in Tuxedo Park called Tower House, where he set up the lab.
"For every billion dollars we spend in our crumbling infrastructure, 47, 000 high-paying jobs are created, " Reid said.
His office, located in a crumbling building adjacent to the downmarket Mahim area, has been vandalized four times as a result.
Wal-Mart remains the exception to the rule in the crumbling retail sector thanks to its global footprint and deeply discounted prices.
A.A. agents dressed better, worked harder and made it their job to know which projects were crumbling, who was in rehab and who was screwing who.
Life insurers spy opportunity in the crumbling of India's traditional extended families and the threadbare social safety-net, which can be padded out only with private savings.
He said the SNP government had built and refurbished 330 schools over the past four years, halving the number of pupils taught in "crumbling school buildings" from 250, 000.
Mr Netanyahu said that "the crumbling of the regime in Syria" would be a key issue in talks with US President Barack Obama when he visited Israel next month.
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As he suspected, the dishes were indeed packed in the crumbling old bag, but any triumph Stembridge felt at their retrieval quickly vanished when he realized "I couldn't zip the case!"
In 1985 Liverpool played Juventus at Heysel in the European Cup final and 39 people were killed when they tried to escape violence only for a wall in the crumbling stadium to collapse.
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This will mark the end of the Orange's long tenure in the crumbling Big East (they're moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference next season), and the players are keenly aware this might be the best chance to give Boeheim one more national title before he retires.
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