The inflation driven exhilaration proves fleeting as the pendulum swings back like a wrecking ball.
Last week, the government lost patience, telling creditor banks to take the wrecking ball to the Daewoo group.
In a letter to Xuan Zang, Shenzhen's Jing Bao vows to defend the temple against the wrecking ball.
For 20 years after the passing of Lynn Fontanne, Ten Chimneys sat in jeopardy, nearly falling to a wrecking ball.
Today in Hoyerswerda there is too much residential property and the wrecking ball demolished 7, 150 apartments between 1990 and 2008.
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In the 1940s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia saved the building that would become New York City Center from the wrecking ball.
But when the wrecking ball finally came for the exhibit, in the 1960s, it bounced right off the building's polymer walls.
The exhibit got a further boost when Springsteen released his album Wrecking Ball and launched a tour that would take him to Philadelphia.
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His next purchase was a 1920s Mediterranean designed by William Templeton Johnson, also in La Jolla, that was slated for the wrecking ball.
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The internet had taken a wrecking ball to his business model.
I'm surprised that we haven't discussed beer before, because it also doubles as a wrecking ball when it comes to demolishing a few stereotypes and misconceptions about the land down under.
Many historical sites that have escaped the wrecking ball, however, have suffered from gaudy restorations catering to China's boom in domestic tourism, which can turn remote relics into fairground attractions almost overnight.
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We engaged in a variety of interactive environments, from a flying tour over a digital landscape, waving a wand around to throw a wrecking ball into a Jenga-style tower, and shooting up zombies.
We interacted with in a variety of environments, from a flying tour over a digital landscape, waving a wand around to throw a wrecking ball into a Jenga-style tower, to shooting up zombies.
But history shows a pattern: when attractions prove too expensive to maintain, score low on guest approval, lose sponsorship or have difficulty churning through high numbers of visitors, they are likely to meet the wrecking ball.
"The whole city was crumbling, and then we elected Ed Koch, " Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday during a ceremony marking the centennial of Grand Central Terminal, a once-crumbling edifice Koch helped save from the wrecking ball.
But for its urgency, the breadth of the music performed admirably by the ad-hoc group of musicians, and how Mr. Springsteen is determined to inspire brotherhood with what he perceives as traditional American and Christian ideals, "Wrecking Ball" is a triumph.
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Springsteen and his E Street Band opened their Wrecking Ball Tour to enthusiastic reviews in Brisbane, the hometown of Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan, who revealed in a speech last year that The Boss had long been his political inspiration.
What set the wrecking-ball swinging after decades of apathy and despair?
It was Ireland's Trent Johnston who got the ball rolling by wrecking the Bangladesh top order with 3-20 after his skipper William Porterfield had won the toss and elected to field first.
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