Employers' representatives say some small businesses could collapse if they have to accept a 50% rise (or more) in their wages bill.
But even a very small chance of an enormous collapse can spell a huge expected problem.
Small stars that formed by gravitational collapse, the theory goes, will have a similar make-up to their parent stars, since they both emerged from the same cloud.
He was working for a small contractor who had seen his business collapse after the housing bubble burst, and now was seeing a significant pickup in his work around this notion.
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The collapse of Northern Rock and other small lenders has allowed the surviving mortgage-lenders to push up their margins.
If prosecutors can convince jurors that Skilling and Lay knew Enron was skidding toward collapse, it's a small additional step to convict them both of fraud.
They compile statistics, perform inspections, write reports for highly engaged but small audiences on subjects such as bee-colony collapse.
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That these countries have managed to remain intact and weather the economic, social and political storm following the collapse of the Soviet Union is therefore no small achievement.
The collapse of the infrastructure in Haiti, the small size of the airport, the time it takes a ship to get from point A to point B, those are all just facts of life.
The capital required is huge, the number of firms with deep enough pockets very small, and the memory of the earlier gas-price collapse induced by America's deregulation is fresh.
You may recall that in the spring I highlighted the plight of Adcocks, a small electricals retailer in Norfolk, brought to the brink of collapse after it bought one of the notorious structured collars from Barclays.
If you were to assume that every point in the universe contained some information, then even a small office would be so densely packed with particles that it would collapse in on itself like a black hole, says Raphael Bousso, a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Cypriot president said if he hadn't accepted the tax on bank deposits, the European Central Bank would have stopped providing emergency funds to the country's top two lenders which would have led to the collapse of the banking system, the bankruptcy of thousands of small businesses, massive job losses, and ultimately the country's exit from the euro.
The other half goes to small and mid-sized regional banks, many situated in areas that were hit hardest by the housing market collapse.
One of the ironies of the power crisis is that, instead of profiting from increased prices, small generators that use renewable sources of energy such as the wind and the sun have been driven almost to collapse by the failure of the utilities to pay them.
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