If you were to assume that every point in the universe contained some information, then even a small office would be so densely packed with particles that it would collapse in on itself like a black hole, says Raphael Bousso, a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
On Thursday the U.S. Commerce Department reported that U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter was unrevised at an annual pace of 0.6%. slowed by a collapse in spending on new homes and a slump in inventories.
As the collapse in spending on information technology marked the beginning of the downturn, its reversal may herald the end.
Saqlain Mushtaq picked up career-best figures of six for 46 in a spectacular Australian batting collapse on day two in the second Test in Hobart.
Jacobs also points out that perhaps there is a link between the area near this highway and tragedies that have happened in history, such as the bridge collapse on I-35 in Minneapolis last August and the assassination of JFK 44 years ago near I-35 in Dallas.
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Compared with this, the first movie was almost quaint, in that Gibson was supposed to be verging on mental collapse, and Glover got drawn in when he did something suicidal while on the job.
And that required some steps that were, frankly, unpopular -- steps like stabilizing a financial system that was on the brink of collapse, and intervening in an auto industry that was on the brink of extinction.
Recently many investors have been responding to the collapse in interest rates by taking on increasing amounts of risk, such as buying "junk" bonds issued by less-creditworthy companies.
His lawyer Simon McKay said the medical board had recommended the soldier should be discharged as a result of serious brain damage caused following his collapse while on a charity run in the Amazon jungle four years ago.
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And I think it's important, particularly for business leaders here, to understand that fact, that if you see a complete collapse in state and local government spending on basic needs, that that could create a very bad business climate for all of you.
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In 1930-31, during the Hoover administration and in the midst of an economic collapse, there was a very slight increase in tax rates on personal income at both the lowest and highest brackets.
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The coalition has often teetered on the brink of collapse in the past 12 months.
Some of the fall is easily explained: the recession has inevitably cut tax receipts, and the collapse in share prices has reduced capital gains on which people pay tax.
The moves come as the world's largest retailers face pressure to increase their oversight of factory conditions in Bangladesh following a building collapse on April 24 that killed more than 1, 110 workers there.
Yet some of the whiff of inflation has dispersed on account of a collapse in commodity prices leaving the path clear for steady monetary policy for as far as the eye can see.
Some people think that Nigeria, battered by years of economic decline and the criminalisation of government under military rule, plus a collapse in respect for traditional structures, is on the brink of social breakdown.
Having worked at Enron and other energy companies in the Houston area, she caught on to the lingo of the business and saw it collapse in 2002.
While major property investors including London-based Enstar Capital have fled Dubai in anticipation of a total financial collapse, Emaar and the Government of Dubai are counting on speculators to take stakes in the Burj now, in anticipation of a market rebound.
Just how much so readers will learn from Martin Gilman's account of Russia's fitful, often stumbling economic reforms in the short decade between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country's default on its domestic debt in 1998.
But following a collapse in its banking sector, the country fell on hard times.
Worries for a further collapse in already fragile investor confidence sent the yield on Greek debt skyrocketing to end the week.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee kicked it off Monday during a hearing on the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September.
The general hospital is not viable, and most would collapse tomorrow in the absence of subsidies, restraints on competition and philanthropic life support.
In a statement released on Monday, Ryanair mentioned the unprecedented hike in fuel prices and the collapse of a number of carriers.
"I was very, very disappointed, " says Schulte-Noelle, who blames the collapse on squabbling between the two banks' in-house investment bankers.
In a significant U-turn, the European Central Bank (ECB) has reportedly proposed imposing losses on bondholders in Spanish banks that collapse.
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.
With Europe still on the brink of collapse and Washington in gridlock, it is understandable that consumers might be worried about the near term future of the economy.
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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.
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