Yet such a heterogeneous grouping would be at serious risk of infighting and collapse.
These possible universes will first expand, and then contract and collapse again under the pull of gravity.
We have seen an economic downturn and collapse that we haven't seen since the late 1920s and the early 1930s.
We want to cut waste and bureaucracy and consolidate and collapse more than 100 different programs that too often duplicate each other.
What we did have was a housing bubble and collapse with the consequent falling over of large parts of the banking system.
Disney executives reiterated that they would like to use the power of those movies to try and collapse the current film windowing system.
The 2010 mine explosion and collapse at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia that killed 29 miners played a role in the slowdown.
Having reported on Japan's rise and collapse in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I witnessed firsthand the damage a major real estate meltdown can wreak.
PulsePoint provides the ability to crowd-source Good Samaritans in your community to reduce collapse-to-CPR and collapse-to-defibrillation times by simultaneously dispatching nearby CPR-trained citizens to those in need of CPR.
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Eleven people were killed, including nine Transocean employees, in the April 20 explosion and collapse of the rig, which gushed crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 86 days.
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And these heavy elements are very important for making stars, because they allow the hydrogen and the helium to clump together, and collapse into stars then, and start to shine.
Over the last two years McMoRan and Energy XXI, its exploration partner, have seen their shares surge and collapse with both oil and gas prices and also their success with the drill bit.
Any number of people standing in front of it can put their hands on the screen and "paint, " or pull up satellite maps and zoom in on different locations, open and collapse multiple windows of Web video.
He said recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has estimated the possible global temperature rise by 2100 as 5.8 degrees C, had confirmed a "spectacular" retreat and collapse of ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula.
These fields include areas of nanotechnology, where the categories of physics, chemistry and biology overlap and collapse on each other so as to create new kinds of science, and quantum mechanics, where experimental outcomes are usually seen only in blackboard-based probability formulas.
Supposedly by attacking Wakefield, the primary author of the first highly publicized paper, who is a well-known proponent of the association of childhood vaccinations and autism, then the reality of cause and effect will supposedly just disappear and collapse like a straw man!
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If the ECB were to stop accepting Greek bonds as collateral for its lending to banks on the grounds that the bonds were in default, then Greece's banks, which were stuffed full of their government's bonds, would quickly run out of cash and collapse.
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The Asian Crisis and the collapse of local stock and property markets have put a large part of such plans on hold.
Precisely those purchases of assets to further ease monetary policy are cooking a bigger financial crash than in 2008, Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital argues, and that collapse will start with the housing and bond markets.
But that one fell victim to rapidly developing technologies, the recession, and the collapse of the consumer electronics market, and is unlikely to return a significant profit.
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Many stimulus dollars went to help struggling states and school districts after the housing bubble popped and the financial collapse, and this was a good thing.
Apparently the frequency with which consumers are dining out has been on the rise since mid-2009, presumably since contracting during the worst part of the recession and stock market collapse, and the writers at The Fiscal Times think it may have something to do with cost.
The election of a Socialist president in France and the collapse of the Greek coalition had once again roiled world stock markets and everyone was worried.
These changes can be traced to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union, events that forever altered America's role in Europe and the world.
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And, if gold prices collapse and take the sheen off the gold spa treatment, Ms. Kanokporn has a backup plan: Jacuzzi baths in specially fortified wine.
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And by every reckoning, the Confederacy was on the verge of total military and political collapse.
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The Celtic Tiger stumbled after Ireland's banking crisis and the collapse of its construction sector.
And the collapse of DVD sales means it is more important to drive people to cinemas.
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In the long run over-investment and a collapse of the profits might knock heads together.
In the Midwest the surge in foreclosures and the collapse of traditional industries has hardened hearts.
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