There have been been occasions, they said, where parts of the ground moved or collapsed because of the wet conditions.
As for the banking system itself, far from wrecked or collapsed by the failure of one or many, the sector will be strengthened assuming Stockman is correct about a lack of bailouts.
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Choset and his team have designed a number of different snake robots that can undertake all manner of tasks from assisting in surgery to leading the way in rescue missions after earthquakes or collapsed mines.
Photographs he showed from Sandy's destruction looked very much like those after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005: houses washed from their slabs or collapsed into their foundations, and critical equipment such as generators or switches flooded on ground floors or in basements.
As Mr Bergan movingly recounts, Eisenstein developed a curious mixture of audacity and cunning, always pushing his films towards an ideal state which he must have known could never be realised, for political or economic reasons, yet managing to remain employed and to launch yet another project after the previous one had collapsed or been compromised or sabotaged.
At least three recipients of federal funding collapsed or are struggling to stay afloat.
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Nor did all of our problems begin when the housing market collapsed or the stock market sank.
Across the country, roads and bridges have collapsed or been washed away by rains, severing main transport arteries.
This has been one of the financial titans still standing, as other banks collapsed or were brought up in distress.
The government also estimated that 250, 000 residences and 30, 000 commercial buildings collapsed or were severely damaged in the earthquake.
Modern concrete buildings had also collapsed or showed signs of serious damage.
In Plymouth, engineers are surveying a major route into the city to find out if a sewer has collapsed or has a serious blockage.
Executives sometimes think that control of a particular part of the value chain guarantees success, but the stage of history is littered with dominant companies that collapsed or were forced to change as their playscripts fell apart.
But a contractor currently working in Iraq said via e-mail that the military "could not likely handle" the reconstruction effort alone because its main focus is on fighting wars and security matters, not rebuilding collapsed or failed states.
There are many theories -- for instance, that the first stars were very large and exploded into black holes, or that gas collapsed into itself, but none of these ideas really fit, said Fulvio Melia, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona, who was not involved with the Chandra study.
When the dust settled, and this binge of irresponsibility was over, several of the world's oldest and largest financial institutions had collapsed, or were on the verge of doing so.
New York state education officials have already begun to weigh the fallout from tougher standardized tests tied to new academic standards after schools and parents complained this week that children ran out of time, collapsed in tears or froze up.
Ratings are cut after a major disappointment in company earnings, or just after its stock has collapsed.
But many of these are descendants of Christians who were killed or deported as the Ottoman empire collapsed, and went on to be big traders in provincial African towns.
The HART units - made up of seven teams of six - will be on call 24 hours a day at the Ambulance Special Operations Centre (ASOC) to respond to multiple casualties, people trapped in collapsed buildings, flooding or hazardous materials incidents.
Everyone agrees that the court must complement, not replace, national courts and should act only where national courts have collapsed, lost all credibility or blatantly refuse to act themselves.
Brit reportedly collapsed shortly after midnight from partying or exhaustion, foreshadowing the rest of her year.
The habit can be caused by being overweight, drinking alcohol, having collapsed airways, a blocked nose, or by taking some types of medicine such as sleeping tablets before bed.
But A-level exams would have to be taken earlier and marked faster, or university terms to start later, and the public consultation collapsed in disagreement over details.
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Emergency-services experts say that in general odds of survival are reduced by 10% for every minute a person is collapsed from a sudden cardiac arrest without cardiopulmonary resuscitation or defibrillation.
For example, they might be called to testify as to whether the snowfall in a given month was typical or atypical, in order to determine whether a roof that collapsed was properly designed.
The biggest technological challenge will be transporting the collapsed module through the sub-zero temperatures of space without tearing or cracking any part of it, Miller said.
The 13-year-old dramatically collapsed onto the floor after she learned she would be heading home -- or into the open arms of benevolent Mr. Hollywood, who is apparently waiting in the wings on line two.
News of the donation came as Mr. Cuomo announced Monday that casino developers would compete to build a gambling hall in or around New York City, now that the Genting deal for the Aqueduct project had collapsed.
Coriolan, who died when her boyfriend's home collapsed, was the founder of Solidarite Fanm Ayisyen (Solidarity with Haitian Women, or SOFA), which Charles described as an advocacy and services organization.
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