• An under-strength Canada suffered a monumental 102-8 defeat by Australia A last month and their Rugby Canada select suffered a second-half collapse against Scotland last weekend.

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  • Glasgow lost replacement Paul Burke to the sin-bin, Sweeney converting the resulting penalty, with the Blues determined not to suffer the second-half collapse that cost them dearly against Ulster last weekend.

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  • The emotional explosion of tears meets with the brainwashing of office etiquette and you get this half-dismissive, half-collapse that is uniquely the office cry.

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  • Nonetheless, the two communities managed to live together in harmony, not only in the more prosperous years preceding the Crisis, but also during the difficult year-and-a-half since the collapse of Indonesia's economy.

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  • In February last year a second witness came forward who claimed he had spoken to Mr Cope seven-and-a-half minutes after his collapse and said he had named Mr Wanoghu as his attacker.

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  • Overall figures were hard to verify but one local newspaper report said that exports fell by more than 50% in the first half of this year because of a collapse in Western orders.

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  • His former supporters among the poor have been hit by the collapse of the peso, which lost half its value against the dollar last year.

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  • Mead Smoothing out the cycles Thanks to excess capacity and Asia's financial collapse, the price for pulp has fallen to about half its 1995 level.

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  • By the time of the housing collapse, there were 27 million subprime and other risky loans, half of all mortgages in the United States.

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  • In other words, Goldman may think that the near-collapse of American financial-services shares, some of which have lost half their value in a few months, is wildly overdone.

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  • After the highly publicized collapse of Enron in 2001, many of their employees lost more than half of their retirement assets when the company declared bankruptcy and then to make matters worse, they also lost their jobs.

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  • Objective Analysis continues to call for depressed pricing through the first half of 2013, but the industry has moved from its cyclical phase of price collapse to a phase of cost-based pricing, which could result in continuing mild month-to-month growth for the interim.

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  • "Unfortunately for the narrow structures in the body (like urethras), they are kind of complex because they tend to collapse, " said Atala, who added that conventional urethra replacement fails more than half the time.

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  • Over the next three and a half years CBS stumbled through a protracted writers' strike that crippled Hollywood and into the near-collapse of the advertising market.

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  • The Nobel Peace Prize, as much of the world keeps holding its collective breath, fearing that the potential collapse of the Eurozone, exits of member states, region-wide banking crisis, half-steps and dithering by European leaders could drag the global economy deeper into the mud and tear Europe into pieces yet again?

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  • Tripathi moved to his maiden Championship half century in 85 balls, but when he smashed Smith to Garry Park at mid on it sparked a collapse that saw the hosts lose seven wickets for 62 runs either side of a 40-minute rain delay.

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  • Many readers may not remember the first half of 1998, but may be more likely to recall the Russian ruble crisis in July 1998 and the ensuing collapse in the fall of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM).

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