In a similar collapse in 2010, 69 people were killed in Delhi.

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The ordeal stirred memories of a 2010 Chilean mine collapse in which 33 men were trapped underground for 69 days.

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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.

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Case in point: Meridith Whitney, who is given both credit for warning in 2007 of the collapse of Citigroup, and blame for predicting in 2010 that numerous municipalities would be in bankruptcy by now.

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The statement comes after years of hardship for Iceland, which suffered the collapse of its financial system in 2008 and a massive 2010 volcano eruption that shut down international travel in the region.

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Portugal started its collapse from a 79% debt-to-GDP ratio in 2010, yet Japan is still easily rolling over a net debt burden of 128% of GDP (latest IMF data).

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Reeling from hemorrhaged real estate plays and on the brink of collapse, the swan song for these Pacific Northwest institutions had been written by regulators who in 2010 seemed eager to add them to the long list of shuttered Washington State banks.

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It assumes, for example, that the deficit will be reduced by the economy rebounding to 3.2% growth as early as 2010, which is extremely unlikely, if not impossible, given the severity of the collapse worldwide.

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Also, the market manipulation continued well into 2010, or long after RBS's management was replaced at the end of 2008 following the collapse of the bank and its partial nationalisation.

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