An uncontrolled default could unleash a host of frightening scenarios upon a country and a Balkan region on the edge of the European Union — including hyperinflation, political instability, disintegration of public services, increased migration across borders, social breakdown and even the collapse of law and order.
In more recent films, Sir Alan played a butler bordering on breakdown in Robert Altman's 2001 period drama and murder mystery, "Gosford Park"; a fascist who plots to bomb a Super Bowl game in the 2002 thriller "The Sum of All Fears"; and a mad scientist who foretells disaster in "The Mothman Prophecies," also in 2002.
The EU's leaders insist the backstop is necessary to avoid any possibility of a hard border and a breakdown in the Irish peace process.
WASHINGTON — As tumult rages across the Middle East, and relations with Pakistan border on a breakdown, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was scheduled Wednesday night to host a private dinner with at least six former Latin American presidents, part of a quiet campaign to repair relations with a region that complains it has been ignored by American policy makers.
These adventures must be fun, but they've had their sobering moments, with car breakdowns, border hassles (the group refuses to pay the standard bribes) and some arrests, all captured on video by two of the artists, Lucy Azubuike and Nana Oforiatta-Ayim.
Thompson claimed that she "left the theater in a condition bordering on nervous breakdown," because the film was a "remarkable nightmare".
"We just have an intolerably high level of violence in our society bordering on a breakdown of common civility," said City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, whose 8th District includes the 77th Street Division.
That may be harder to do given the level of distrust between India and Pakistan, whose relations are not at their best at the moment following the recent border firing and the breakdown of peace talks.
Wars disrupt economies and can create acute shortages, often while encouraging lawlessness and the breakdown of borders and institutions.
Over time, however, the role of international capital in spreading financial breakdown across borders has been growing.
