• They earlier demanded that either the developers Dunelm Homes or the landowners Northumberland Estates took responsibility for the ground collapse.

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  • "We cannot use machines because if they came near, the ground will collapse, " he was quoted as saying on Thursday.

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  • Once alight, the smouldering fire spreads slowly through the peat and can cause the ground above to collapse.

    BBC: Climate change 'partly to blame' for sweltering Moscow

  • But the Air Force then calculated that a payload of thirty-two smart bombs, each weighing two thousand pounds, would be required to penetrate thirty feet below ground, insuring that any bunkers would collapse.

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  • The auto industry has survived and thrived and the banks, which were in near collapse, are on solid ground which would even be more stable if regulations proposed by the Obama administration would be given serious consideration by Congressional Republicans.

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  • Freed believes that the lingering cloud of dust -- caused by the towers' collapse and the digging out of ground zero -- caused some of her long- and short-term medical problems, such as her "WTC cough" and other respiratory issues.

    CNN: The story

  • But the subterranean quarries that were formed proved to be a shaky foundation for the city, causing a number of streets to collapse and be swallowed up by the ground.

    CNN: Loving life in Paris' Empire of the Dead

  • Salvage workers on Wednesday, two weeks after the collapse, said they had reached the ground level and did not expect the death toll, already more than 800, to rise much further.

    WSJ: Another Fire as Bangladesh Toll Tops 900

  • Salvage workers on Wednesday, two weeks after the collapse, said they had reached the ground level and didn't expect the death toll, already more than 800 at the time, to rise much further.

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  • "I taught about economic collapse and how it actually looks on the ground, " he said.

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  • "I taught about economic collapse and how it actually looks on the ground, " Croft told CNN affiliate WHNS, noting he wasn't expecting the world's total obliteration but rather a more gradual slide into chaos.

    CNN: The end of the world? Not quite yet

  • We saw a firefighter who had just come from trying to rescue people at ground zero, but he had been turned back by the impending collapse.

    CNN: Day turns to night at ground zero

  • Mr Opik said the Lib-Lab coalition forged last year on common ground with the Labour administration in the assembly would continue, despite the collapse of a pact between the two parties at national level.

    BBC: Lib Dems vision for service funding

  • The Fed minutes from 2007 reveal that members of the Federal Open Market Committee began to struggle to find a middle ground between action that was internationalist enough to ward off a systemic financial collapse on the one hand, and Lassie-Faire enough to avoid moral hazard on the other.

    FORBES: Inverse Moral Hazard: A Slaughter Rule For Finance

  • Huge waves caused part of the harbour wall at Balintore, near Tain in Ross-shire, to collapse, with two boys aged 12 and 14 suffering minor cuts after being thrown to the ground by the force of the water.

    BBC: Gales and high tides cause damage across eastern Scotland

  • If engineers were held to the same standards, bridges would collapse as often as banks, planes would fall from the sky (if they ever got off the ground), and cyclical blackouts would be a permanent feature of our electrical grid.

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