I was too worried that she would break down.

What is hardest to forecast, though, are turning points when the old relationships break down.

China is Not Collapsing

This process of urban growth, however, is about to unravel.

Will China crash?

But a simulacrum falls apart much faster.

She was shocked just like me, but didn t break down.

But that book was published in 2007 before, presumably, his intellectual structure fell apart.

Indeed, no one promises that Belgium will not collapse in the next 10 or 20 years.

While it persisted, expenditures swelled but were manageable until, suddenly, energy prices collapsed.

International trade would collapse, and major global companies would struggle to sell their products.

It is crumbling because of the devastating effects of successive natural disasters and the ecological damage to its deteriorated environment.

And this was an important thing about 19th century technology, that all these relationships among parts could make the most brilliant idea fall apart, even when judged by the most expert people.

But if one takes a closer look at China, this argument disintegrates.

Human institutions, like human beings, can collapse with surprising speed once they have outlived their usefulness.

But given India s deep engagement in the process, it cannot wash its hands off at this moment of climax, when the process itself is about to crumble.

Asians need not be pessimistic the perfect storm of a hard landing in China, a double dip recession in the United States, and a collapse of the eurozone is unlikely.

Or the 1963 Jaguar It's actually a crummy car, falls apart all the time, but the owners love it.

Because when systems are broken, like the ones that we're seeing around the world, it's an opportunity for invention and for innovation.

Well, I do not dare to even think of the consequences, because the situation could potentially totally unravel.

But it is already clear that the capacity of some communities to adapt will quickly be exceeded if climate change goes unmitigated.

If everyone woke up tomorrow expecting that the world would shift to Apple within a year, sales of Windows would plummet.

Despite dramatic increases over the past 50 or 100 years, these cities have not come tumbling down.

Whatever the cause, when the risk tolerance of the market crashes, so do prices of risky financial assets.

This suggests that taxpayer assets will no longer back government debt, at which point confidence in the JGB market is likely to shatter.

SEOUL There was a time, not long after the Cold War s end, when almost everyone assumed that North Korea would soon collapse.

Civilization collapses, and two competing groups struggle to re create medieval technologies and skills, as well as master magic.

But if you allow a financial market to spin wildly until it breaks down, it really does seem that you run the risk of years of economic malaise.

Students can have so many easy successes during subsequent years that either their study skills deteriorate or they become so frustrated with banal lessons that they drop out.

Such is the supposedly airtight case for a stronger dollar. How might it spring a leak?

I'm astonished, wall, that you haven't collapsed into ruins, since you're holding up the weary verse of so many poets.

VIENNA Solidarity is essential to democratic societies otherwise, they fall apart.

The proximate reason for all financial crises is excessive credit growth a credit boom that goes bust.

The war began as part of a succession crisis in the Fatimid Caliphate, which began to crumble under the pressure of Syria and the Crusader states.

Of course, there is no glee in seeing stock prices tumble as a result of soaring mortgage defaults.

Have you then become so sure that He will not cleave the earth and sink you in it by the shore , or send a gale against you , when you will not find any protector .

Are you unafraid that He may bury an edge of the same land along with you , or send a shower of stones upon you , and you find no supporter for yourselves ?

Do you feel secure that He will not cause the shore to swallow you up , or loose against you a squall of pebbles , then you will find no guardian for you ?

Are ye then secure that he will not cause a side of the land to swallow you up , or send over you a sand storm , and then ye will not find for yourselves a trustee ?

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Are you confident that He will not cause a track of land to cave in beneath you , or unleash a tornado against you , and then you find no protector ?

Do you , then , feel secure against His causing you to be swallowed up by a tract of the earth , or letting loose a deadly whirlwind charged with stones towards you , and there you will find none to protect you ?

Feel ye then secure that He will not cause a slope of the land to engulf you , or send a sand storm upon you , and then ye will find that ye have no protector ?

Do you feel secure that He will not make the coastland swallow you , or He will not unleash upon you a rain of stones ? Then you will not find any defender for yourselves .

Do you feel secure that He will not cause the shore to swallow you , or let loose a squall of pebbles upon you ? Then you shall find no guardian for yourself .