In any case, such a disaster would make an end of the modest Budget surpluses which Italy, unlike the other great Continental nations, has been able of late years to achieve, and the ruin of a flourishing port with considerable silk industries and of a large area of fertile country must alone cut off much of the revenue of the kingdom.
The popular image of these late years may be of crusty and decrepit ancients.
Russia last saw this level of civic engagement in the late glasnost years of the Soviet Union.
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It was during this time Coco's own style and creativity began to blossom -- partly in disgust at the unnecessary extravagance of upper-class style during the gaudy years of the late Belle Epoque in France.
That probe drew together a widening net of inquiries into securities firms' practices in the bubble years of the late 1990s, including those by the National Association of Securities Dealers and many other state securities regulators.
The reputation of the country's coaches has dipped dramatically from the glory years of the late 1970s and early 1980s when Bob Paisley led Liverpool to three European Cups and Brian Clough worked wonders by winning the competition twice with Nottingham Forest.
If they are to win this year, they will do it on the backs of the anonymous, Rivera said, as they did during the dynasty years of the late 1990s.
Missouri Democrat Russ Carnahan is the grandson of a House Member as well as the son of both a governor (Mel Carnahan) and a Senator (Jean Carnahan, who filled two years of her late husband's term from 2000 to 2002).
Even the Space Shuttle, about to be retired after 30 years of service, was itself three years late to the launch pad, and that was after Shuttle main engines blew up on their test stands.
It's no surprise that the top business thinker of the last 50 years, the late Peter Drucker, operated outside of the university system.
And the price of an option to pay or receive a fixed rate of interest in dollars for ten years has been falling sharply of late.
The '59 Sound was recorded in two weeks, and much of it captures the moment when the renegade in his late teen years bumps into the responsibilities of the adult world for the first time.
"What I find particularly striking is the richness and balance and the focus of this collection, which covers 300 years of musical history from the late 17th to the late 20th century, " he said.
There are always announcements of projects that are late, years late, or get killed or just fail.
Although her economic, financial and trade union reforms prepared the ground for the boom years of the late 20th and early 21st century, her style was out.
Taken at face value, the London court feud of two London-based oligarchs, Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich, shines a harsh light on the corruption of the late Yeltsin and Putin years.
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Since then Europe has contributed to the fall of Margaret Thatcher after years of fighting with her colleagues in the late 80s and the splitting of the Tory Party under John Major in the 90s.
That race is actually a special election for the remaining four years of the term of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash days before the election two years ago, and under Missouri law the winner will assume the post immediately after the election.
An offshoot of art nouveau, Catalan modernisme was kick-started by the reawakening of the region's art and language during the late 19th century, following 200 years of suppression by their Spanish overlords.
The number of startups formed in the last two years dwarfs the company formation pace of the late 1990s.
But it's "come years late because of Speaker Quinn's obstruction, " he said.
Mr. DAVID RUBENSTEIN (Save Darfur Coalition): The timing of it is two years too late, but I think it's fabulous that it happened.
Which is why a firm with a good boss does everything in its power to hang on to him and why some of the most successful chief executives, such as the late Roberto Goizueta of Coca-Cola, spent years in the job.
And a series of downpours in late November brought one of the wettest weeks in the last 50 years, causing major disruption.
For eerie parallels to the excesses of the late 1990s, look at what was happening 70 years earlier, in a stock-buying mania of comparable magnitude.
Energy had peaked at 25% of the Index in the late 1970s, years after the Arab oil embargo.
Ms Suu Kyi was freed from years of house arrest in late 2010.
His 2006 memoir "Things I Didn't Know" was frank about his wild years in London of the late 1960s.
The late '90s were years of dissolution for the search industry.
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