The system already copes with a tremendous amount of groundwater and runoff, especially at stations at the tip of Manhattan, where the water table has risen in recent years.

WSJ: Salt Water Puts City's Subway System 'in Jeopardy'

Greece leaving the eurozone and adopting its own currency would be associated with default in its government debt, a collapse of the Greek banking system, and would probably tip the Greek economy into depression.

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The press were crammed into rooms where the party's filing system sits: box files, with the names of obscure conferences stencilled onto them in felt-tip.

BBC: Greek result buys Europe time

It is thought a cut in municipal tip opening hours, the introduction of a new van permit system and a tough economic climate is to blame.

BBC: Imerys land

This is a very useful little tip from a Redditor: if you are lost somewhere in the menu hell of an automated telephone system a few well dropped profanities will lead to the almost immediate attention of a live human being.

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