It is not surprising when a marriage comes apart over a collection, with the spouse resenting the time and money diverted to it.

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If the loan comes apart, Mr Hirsch says, it will be because it can't, or won't, be repaid, not because bankers decide the lending terms are being broken.

ECONOMIST: Leveraged debt

Accidents apart, the main threat comes from ruthless local gangs, operating in and around Tapachula.

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Yet, Basques and Navarrese apart, nearly all their cash comes from the centre: on top of specific grants, 30% of the income tax collected in the region goes back to it.

ECONOMIST: A survey of Spain

Apart from the real estate that sometimes comes with them, what are football teams worth?

FORBES: What's your team worth?

These two strands of DNA peel apart from each other when the time comes for the genes all along the helix to carry out their instructions.

FORBES: Antisense and Sensibility

This negotiation still comes down to Thursday in Washington with two meetings miles apart from each other.

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It comes as no surprise, therefore, that silver is falling apart.

FORBES: Where is Silver heading?

After all, when it comes to the rhetoric, the chancellor and his Labour shadow seem poles apart.

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Apart from 12 Years a Slave, which was filmed in Louisiana, the movie Nebraska perhaps comes closest, but for very different reasons: its stark black-and-white shots of vast, windswept farmland are as important to the feel of the film as is its veteran star, Bruce Dern.

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