Observers wondered how close to disaster the banks really are.
In an industry where margins are traditionally very thin, this is very close to a disaster.
The first half was something close to a disaster: Bucks forward Mike Dunleavy went bonkers, scoring 24 points on 9-of-10 shooting.
He used his high school press credentials to get close enough to document the disaster.
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We must never come so close to a major disaster as we did with the Ascania.
If the pipeline were to close, it would be a disaster for many North Sea firms.
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"The government has a task to be close to all those citizens who have found themselves in a very difficult situation due to the earthquake, the disaster and of course also due to the financial crisis, " Berlusconi said.
Sometimes it was dark humor, even gallows humor in the face of impending disaster, but the laughter was always close to the surface, ready to explode at any moment.
With a close reading of the evidence, it is hard not to see the Titanic disaster as a tragic example of government failure.
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The government must set up a separate budgetary account for disaster reconstruction expenditures and receipts of temporary tax proceeds, to enable close public oversight and auditing.
He Biao, the director of the Aba Disaster Relief headquarters in northern Sichuan province, said officials are concerned about dams close to the epicenter.
As last year was drawing to a close, Goldman Sachs analyst Daryn Miller was predicting that this year would be another disaster for health maintenance organizations.
It will be unveiled close to the site of the colliery on 14 October, the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Senghenydd disaster in which 439 miners were killed - the worst mining disaster in Britain.
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