At the same time, the economic collapse it prompted forced Scotland towards political Union with England, finally enacted in 1707.
Pop off the antenna, collapse it, and screw it into the attached charm -- "geeky" doesn't even begin to describe it.
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In the aftermath of the latest collapse it is clear that the distinction between debt in the private and public sector has become blurred.
Then, in July 1997, the Asian Crisis hit, and everyone looked on in horror as hot money from global hedge funds, fueled by the steroid of high leverage, brought the economies of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to their knees, first creating asset bubbles when it flowed in, and then causing the local currencies to collapse when it was suddenly withdrawn.
Kennedy on comprehensive immigration legislation pushed by then-President George W. Bush in 2007, only to see it collapse in the Senate when it couldn't get enough GOP support.
The East German state feared collapse if it could not hold its most productive citizens.
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After the collapse, it looked as if they'd be coughing up most of their winnings.
As the U.S. prints trillions of dollars to ward off economic collapse, it will spark inflation.
Sprint watched its market share collapse as it was unable to offer the iPhone until recently.
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But barring further collapse, it looks like the closest one out there for stocks and the economy.
As for institutional collapse, it did not begin with Mr Sharif and will not end with him.
Given the magnitude of the collapse, it is remarkable that nothing has happened so far in this regard.
Although America's economy no longer looks on the point of collapse, it has failed to return to healthy growth.
If the Sharif case were to collapse then all the other cases would collapse with it because they're all linked.
This week has been dominated by one man's collapse but it's important to recognize that there's a broader subject at hand.
In the aftermath of the World Trade Centre's collapse, it announced that it would pay out even before death certificates were issued.
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While there have been subsequent announcements that the project will be restructured and restarted (FutureGen 2.0), its collapse opened it up to broad criticism.
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If prosecutors can convince jurors that Skilling and Lay knew Enron was skidding toward collapse, it's a small additional step to convict them both of fraud.
Certainly the Fund was an accessory to the collapse: it overpraised Carlos Menem, Argentina's president of 1989-99, failing to blow the whistle on his loose fiscal policy.
Certain of those securities had been recommended by John Paulson who wanted to make a negative bet that the whole system was flawed and would collapse as it ultimately did.
If we learned one thing from the 2007-2008 market collapse, it is that investors who keep a cool head and are opportunistic in their purchases can make nice tidy profits as stocks recover.
"If this industry goes down in a catastrophic collapse, it will be more expensive than a bridge loan, and with the state of the economy it will drive us into a depression, " he said.
You may recall that in the spring I highlighted the plight of Adcocks, a small electricals retailer in Norfolk, brought to the brink of collapse after it bought one of the notorious structured collars from Barclays.
Lawyers are still trying to understand a British appeals-court ruling of August 2nd concerning client money that has been trapped in Lehman's London subsidiary since the collapse because it was not fenced off from the firm's own assets.
Crazy as such talk may sound to euro-zone governments that believe they have strained every muscle to save Greece from collapse, it will convince some people in a country where conspiracy theories (and, indeed, conspiracies) have a long history.
As negotiations on changing the terms of the Greek rescue limp on, there remains a widespread presumption that Germany - the eurozone's paymaster - would always have too much to lose from the collapse of the currency union to allow it to collapse.
Yes, it's health again, the service that Carwyn Jones warned a few days ago would "collapse" unless it is reformed.
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