The rumor had it that Cerberus was buying up American firearms manufacturers in order to run them into the ground.

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He wanted to get out the window, drop to the ground, run into the sea across the road.

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Some of them also see Myanmar as a valuable asset to ASEAN: it is the world's largest exporter of teak and has important offshore oil and gas deposits (though it is also true that the junta has run large parts of the economy, including the financial system, into the ground).

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"The sheer amount of concrete and Tarmac here now means the water has nowhere to go, it's much, much harder for the water to run away or soak into the ground, " he added.

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Victor Pandit for the last five years has run Citigroup into the ground and now has been pushed overboard.

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On the other hand, Kenya's government is in the grip of a corrupt elite that seems content to allow the economy to run into the ground so long as it can grab a share.

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SmithKline, for instance, had to work hard to allay concerns that it might dump its risks into Lloyd's, run its captive into the ground, and then let the market foot the bill.

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The Salah gasfield project in Algeria, run by BP, strips CO2 from local natural gas and injects it back into the ground.

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And that are the quickest to kind of snap back, and run into new high ground.

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United had a shout for a penalty waved away by referee Calum Murray when Goodwillie went to ground after another run into the box was thwarted under pressure from Saunders.

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