We could see the hotels in a shambles (some of them collapsing) and tons of debris in the water.

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The proposal would have seen the government buy bad debts from US banks to prevent more of them collapsing.

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Much of Cyprus' bailout money will be used to recapitalize Cypriot banks to prevent them from collapsing.

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Still, those at the Fed are nothing if not hubristic, and they'll surely try in vain to be ahead of collapsing markets despite their inability to predict them in the past.

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Now, most of my evenings are about feeding kids, cleaning kids, putting them to bed -- and then collapsing in front of the TV.

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