Yet it is precisely at this moment that we must help people understand that there is no way to overcome the local meltdown without healing the global meltdown, and that a global strategy of generosity is both a moral necessity as well as a practical self-interest plan for the American people.
Regardless of whether subprime lending, rampant speculation, underlying economic decline or, most likely, a combination of the above, triggered local market meltdowns, the fact that some cities have lost over half their value gives pause, even amidst the drumbeat of bad housing news.
Recent stories have highlighted a meltdown in local social services, following the deaths of children on the at-risk register, and the town's unwelcome high teenage pregnancy rate.
Take a kid having a meltdown.
What a difference an economic meltdown makes.
Talk of a bird flu body count is like the talk about a New Labour meltdown at the local elections.
After Peyton, Terri, and Jill hear the offer, they relent, intending to seal themselves until backup, but Alice explains her choice; as the contamination cannot be put under control, a nuclear bomb will be dropped on Raccoon City, completely destroying it, and the media cover story will be a meltdown of the local nuclear power plant.
It's a measure of their importance, however, that Bush was finally put to flight by a global economic meltdown, Petraeus by the local sexual version of the same.
The local marshland ecosystem has suffered, in the words of one area environmentalist, a "biological meltdown" after 150 years of levee building and ever-increasing water withdrawals.
After having a meltdown or a breakdown, stay with them.
