All of these once severely troubled companies pacified investors with rewarding dividends until, of course, their stocks collapsed and dividend payments were terminated.

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If all matter were dark, it would have collapsed a lot (and, of course, there would be no humans around to observe what is going on, since people are made of normal matter).

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Ms Kennedy, who assumed the education portfolio when the Northern Ireland Assembly collapsed, had said she intended to follow the course of action set out by Mr McGuinness.

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Claire Squires, 30, from Leicestershire, collapsed on the final stretch of the 26.2-mile course.

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Claire Squires, 30, of North Kilworth, collapsed and died on the final stretch of the 26.2-mile course last April.

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He told a recent group of visitors that the fuel-tax escalator might have run its course, pointing out that the all-party consensus which had once sustained it had now collapsed.

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