The breach caused part of a road to collapse and threatened a major sewer.
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It led the U.S. top income tax rate to collapse from 70% to 28%.
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While some are extremely painful, vertebral fractures are often asymptomatic until the spine begins to collapse.
Mitsubishi came close to collapse in April when former majority owner DaimlerChrysler withdrew financial support.
Not that Twitter, any more than Facebook, is going to collapse in the near term.
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Imagine trying to collapse that basketball while keeping it round and not letting any air out.
It only took five quarters for that share to collapse to its present 9%.
For Soros, a Greek bond default is the first house of cards to collapse.
They would have told you their industry was about to collapse because credit had completely frozen.
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Investigators have not yet determined what caused the I-35W bridge to collapse in Minneapolis last week.
But global supply is constrained, and barring global economic Armageddon, demand is not going to collapse.
Gitic was the biggest of several Chinese investment trusts to collapse between 1999 and 2002.
Mr. Noseworthy of Fur Harvesters says he doesn't expect the muskrat-belly market to collapse disastrously.
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In any other market, such huge stocks would eventually cause the price to collapse.
Were the stockmarket to collapse, Mr Swensen believes half of the endowment would remain relatively healthy.
That would cause revenues to collapse, spending to soar further, and deficits and debt to further explode.
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They expect the talks with the Europeans to collapse soon sending Iran to the UN Security Council.
Andersen, meanwhile, continues to collapse, having announced 7, 000 layoffs Monday, about a quarter of its U.S. workforce.
If the Doha trade talks are not to collapse, both countries must open their farm markets more.
Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.
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Meanwhile, major financial institutions with large real-estate exposures continue to collapse, feeding the pipeline of distressed assets.
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During the rainy season, it is not uncommon for buildings to collapse, injuring or killing the residents.
Mr Darling said allowing HBOS to collapse would have had knock-on effects for all of Britain's banks.
The only difference is that it took a century to collapse, while today changes happen at Internet speed.
However, the shop closed in April 1998 when the building began to collapse because of old mine workings.
It threatened to collapse on me, but I spun from it, righted the pole, and then ran home.
When those upper floors began to fall, they forced everything below them to collapse in a "piledriver" effect.
In December Mr Baker and Mr Hamilton noted that none of Iraq's neighbours wants it to collapse altogether.
"I don't think the international community can afford for (Egypt) to collapse economically ... or politically, " Cook said.
And the periodic torrential downpours threatened to collapse that tent on the 25 diners who were sitting there.
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