LAST year a collapse in a coal mine triggered a small earthquake in Saarland, a speck of a state near Germany’s border with France.

去年一起煤矿坍塌事件在萨尔州——与法国接壤的一个德国小州——激起了不小风波。

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Mr Milken's belief that a small bank with great ideas could shake the establishment made an impression on the young Mr Moelis, despite Drexel's subsequent collapse.

尽管德雷克塞尔后来倒闭了，但是米尔肯认为有着好思路的小银行能够撼动大机构的观点，给年轻的莫里斯留下了深刻的印象。

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Modestly higher inflation or jumpier currencies seem a small price to pay for preventing the collapse of America's financial system.

微微抬高一点的通胀水平或者更为急剧波动的币值看上去是为了防止美国金融体系崩溃而付出的小小代价。

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The president says the bill will subject large and small banks to tougher oversight, and prevent banks from taking so much risk they could collapse and threaten the economy.

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So, just, if you can take what I'm saying for a moment right now that in fact this should collapse in this very small time frame, we have to see that there's a problem with one of these two things, either the Coulomb force law or Newtonian mechanics. So, what do you guys think is probably the issue here?

所以如果你们考虑我,开始说的这个塌缩应该,发生在很短的时间里，那么这两者之一就有问题,要么是库伦定律,要么是牛顿力学,你们觉得应该是哪个的问题？

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Employers' representatives say some small businesses could collapse if they have to accept a 50% rise (or more) in their wages bill.

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But even a very small chance of an enormous collapse can spell a huge expected problem.

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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.

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