Like all parabolic moves in demand the end came crashing down, and today the industry is limping along.
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To the guardians of accounting principles, the best cure for wanton stock-options grants, which made billions of dollars for insiders before the market came crashing down, is to expense them.
Then suddenly the curtains came crashing down.
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He tells how Sohu.com "caught the last train" to list on New York's Nasdaq technology stocks index in July 2000, just as the dotcom boom came crashing down, but survived to turn its first profit in the third quarter of 2002.
When the whole thing came crashing down in 2008, tax people were scratching their heads about how to clean up the mess.
Just six years after Obama penned his little manifesto, the Iron Curtain came crashing down.
One of the biggest things that caused this recession was the housing bubble, and all those subprime loans that were going out that were getting packaged in Wall Street and folks were making millions and billions of dollars off them, and then the whole thing came crashing down.
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More than two weeks after the building in the suburb of Savar came crashing down, workers with cranes and other heavy equipment were still pulling apart the rubble and finding more bodies.
As conventionally measured, stock prices quadrupled in the 1990s and then came crashing down.
Unfortunately for her, she launched Pendo just as the financial services system came crashing down in 2008.
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From the outset in the 1970s the developer always has aimed high, but in the early 1990s he came crashing down.
And it all came crashing down in the worst crisis that we've seen in our lifetimes.
This arrangement came crashing down in the fall of 2008 as mortgage defaults increased and the guarantees became real liabilities.
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Whether they really believed it in their heart of hearts (which in my view is ultimately of no importance) the Soviets took the application of communism very seriously and, right until it all came crashing down, maintained a degree of state control over the economy that Westerners have a hard time fathoming.
They raised their cupped hands to ask for the salvation of those who died when the eight-storey Rana Plaza building came crashing down on 24 April.
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But disaster struck for Reade when her front wheel appeared to clip the back wheel of Chausson, and she came crashing down.
When it all came crashing down, no one within the banking system seemed to know who started it all or who was to blame.
It all came crashing down in Iowa -- and the Missouri race, just as quickly, opened up.
It's the filmmaker's good fortune and certainly to her subjects' credit that the Siegels allowed her to keep filming in the aftermath of 2008, as David's business empire came crashing down.
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Liberal Democrats could only stand and watch as a power base they had spent over a decade building up in Sheffield came crashing down after just one year of their party being in government at Westminster for the first time.
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