As early as 1979, he publicly predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse from internal stresses.
If that all came out, says Mr Anastasijevic, virtually the entire political establishment would collapse.
The world economy would collapse, and we would all be back grubbing for bugs to eat.
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Only 6% thought it would become a looser grouping, and only 2% that it would collapse.
Systems of banking, energy, transportation, food production and delivery, water, emergency services, and even cyberspace would collapse.
"If the rest of the world were to eat like we do, the planet would collapse, " Roberts says.
Plainly, if they were to refuse en masse to submit their papers to the journals, the business would collapse.
The Eritreans went on the offensive, believing that the Ethiopian government would collapse.
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If the Sharif case were to collapse then all the other cases would collapse with it because they're all linked.
Banks would collapse and capital flee, and many of Greece's companies, unable to pay their euro-denominated bills, would go bankrupt.
It was widely expected the 2001 recession would plunge further into another Great Depression, and the Dow would collapse to 1, 000.
If we attempted to do so, our economy would collapse, public order would break down, and many Greeks would face starvation.
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It also determined that the insurance market would collapse if Congress forced insurers to cover everybody without requiring everybody to buy insurance.
The general hospital is not viable, and most would collapse tomorrow in the absence of subsidies, restraints on competition and philanthropic life support.
The spokesman explained that if freedom of movement was abandoned for football, it would spread to other sports and the principle would collapse.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it was "very likely" that an entire wall of the reservoir would collapse, releasing a fresh wave of chemical effluent.
Similarly, we'd would collapse of boredom if they all ended 9-3.
If Cyprus fails, the ECB said it would cut off funds to the banks, meaning they would collapse, possibly pushing the country out of the eurozone.
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If all the UUP ministers had quit, there would have been virtually no chance of any other candidate having cross-community support and the executive would collapse.
Without the ECB's support, Cypriot banks would collapse on Tuesday, pushing the country toward bankruptcy and a potential exit from the 17-nation bloc that uses the euro currency.
Yet the banks might not take part until they were on the ropes and, if house prices later fell dramatically more, the value of the banks' shares would collapse.
Certain of those securities had been recommended by John Paulson who wanted to make a negative bet that the whole system was flawed and would collapse as it ultimately did.
If every donor did that, charitable organizations would collapse.
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But the Air Force then calculated that a payload of thirty-two smart bombs, each weighing two thousand pounds, would be required to penetrate thirty feet below ground, insuring that any bunkers would collapse.
If a deal on an alternative agreement fails, the European Central Bank (ECB) says it will cut off funds to the banks, meaning they would collapse, possibly pushing the country out of the eurozone.
New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a liberal Republican, pointed out last week at a Senate town-hall hearing in Philadelphia that the Big Apple's economy would collapse without the half-million or so undocumented people among the city's 3m immigrants.
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If engineers were held to the same standards, bridges would collapse as often as banks, planes would fall from the sky (if they ever got off the ground), and cyclical blackouts would be a permanent feature of our electrical grid.
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