During the year, we saw some of the main pillars of 20th century management starting to crumble and even collapse.
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Because the energy flow is not just non-constant but also erratic, the back-up systems also need to be extremely sensitive and capable of ramping up from shut-down to fully-on within a very short period of time to prevent grid instability and even collapse.
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At some point, the accumulation of non-payable debt could lead to a banking crisis, or even economic collapse.
The cost of litigation alone (leaving aside any potential damages) may cause significant damage to a startup, including reductions in staff, changes to its products or services, or even a collapse of the business itself.
Systems of banking, energy, transportation, food production and delivery, water, emergency services, and even cyberspace would collapse.
No one in the owner class seems to take notice, however, even after the collapse of Bear Stearns in March.
Prices are not going to collapse even with a double dip recession.
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In the future, some suggest that aging boomers will force the home market to collapse even more due both to the current mortgage meltdown and changing demographics.
Citigroup's plunge from its customary top spot in our Global 2, 000 is nothing short of epochal. (Maybe soon it will go back to being good old Citicorp.) An even more stunning collapse was that of Swiss bank UBS, whose uncreditworthy adventures have dropped it from 9 to 386.
Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people )'s plunge from its customary top spot in our Global 2, 000 is nothing short of epochal. (Maybe soon it will go back to being good old Citicorp.) An even more stunning collapse was that of Swiss bank UBS, whose uncreditworthy adventures have dropped it from 9 to 386.
"It seems like CEOs hit the lottery even when their companies collapse, " said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Senior European officials say Europe can't let a European country collapse, even if it leaves the euro.
Intriguingly, even the apparently disastrous collapse of Glaxo-SmithKline hints that managers might be behaving more like shareholders.
The history of corporate pensions has not been a satisfactory one, even before the stockmarket collapse wreaked such havoc.
Blame for the bank's collapse may even extend to its auditors, KPMG.
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They had pushed the bank to raise capital levels and liquidity, and the firm met those conditions even up to its collapse.
Even before the 2008 collapse, seismic changes in governance were rumbling throughout the C-Suites and boardrooms of corporate America, compliments of Messrs.
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Mr. Bagli's strength is in crunching numbers, and he makes clear that even without a credit collapse Mr. Speyer would have come up short.
Consumer confidence among high net worth individuals has waned even further since the collapse of Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers in September and the ensuing malaise in the financial sector.
Continuing concerns about the prospects of inflation have many investors and advisors looking toward deploying inflation hedges like gold, commodities, TIPs and, despite the recent collapse, even real estate in their allocation models.
Japan's actions, she said, had helped "stave off an even more dire global economic collapse".
Do you wish, in retrospect, you had not made those deals even if it meant the collapse of the program?
Immigration from Mexico has or stopped or, by some estimates, even reversed since the housing collapse began six years ago.
Exxon has long led the oil majors in investment in research and technology, keeping up such work even when the oil price collapse of the late 1990s led rivals to slash funding.
But for some people, ingesting something that even accidentally touched tree nuts or peanuts could result in anaphylaxis, a severe reaction that can lead to blocked airways, cardiovascular collapse, and even death.
We borrowed to fund two wars, then borrowed even more to avert a financial collapse.
Even after the dot-com collapse, there is still cash being thrown at young techies with a genius for a hot thing--like Gnutella.
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