History is littered with once-dominant institutions that were imperceptibly hollowed out and then suddenly collapsed.
The illusion of stability was shattered in April last year when Nissan Mutual Life Insurance Co. suddenly collapsed.
An 18-person crew had been working on the Interstate 35W span when it suddenly collapsed during the evening rush hour.
About 45 minutes into the shift, the building suddenly collapsed, killing at least 362 people in a fury of falling concrete.
On Tuesday night, in another part of town, a building suddenly collapsed when the ground beneath it subsided, killing 25 people.
Some 2, 000 people were in the Rana Plaza building in Savar when it collapsed suddenly on Wednesday morning.
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Although some 2, 200 people have been rescued from the Rana Plaza building in Savar since it collapsed suddenly on Wednesday morning - with more than 40 being rescued in the last 24 hours - hundreds of people are still missing.
LTCM, a hedge fund, collapsed when interest rates suddenly shifted after Russia's default in the summer of 1998.
She lost her job suddenly in early August when the company collapsed amidst the squeeze in the credit markets and filed for bankruptcy.
The market collapsed, with numerous companies suddenly facing insolvency.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Cuba's economic lifeline was suddenly cut with dramatic consequences: there were blackouts, food shortages, no fuel.
But rather like Northern Rock, the British bank that became too dependent on the wholesale markets for funding and collapsed in 2007, countries such as Greece and Italy have discovered that investors can suddenly withdraw their favours.
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