Our first prototype, with an oval screen with plexiglass, collapsed too much and would tear at the seams.
The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, switching yard for most of the state's water supplies, is close to ecological collapse because too much water is pumped out of it or is diverted before it gets there.
Fontenla-Novoa started out in the travel industry at International Leisure Group, an ambitious tour operator run by the flamboyant entrepreneur Harry Goodman that collapsed under too much debt in 1991.
"We went everyday until it collapsed from too much fun and frolicking, spilling thousands of gallons of water through an open basement window.
The prose is sometimes collapsed into too much shorthand analysis, and the dots he wants to connect don't quite do so.
"The established parties collapsed — they had too much pressure from Berlin and Brussels and the I.M.F.," said Nikos Xydakis, an editor at the Kathimerini daily and a political commentator, referring to Greece's foreign lenders.
In HMP Altcourse in Merseyside, prisoners have nicknamed ambulances "Mambulances" because they are always being called to help inmates who've collapsed from using too much Mamba.
Too little authority and the arts sessions would have collapsed into chaos; too much and the liminal time-space would have become indistinguishable from the everyday classroom.
In 2008, Lehman was allowed to fail but American International Group was saved because its collapse was seen as too much for the system to bear.
