It has enough friction to hold a 19-pound computer solidly in place at any angle, yet enough give to collapse away to nothing when you push down on it.
Almost overnight the price structure for tulips collapsed, sweeping away fortunes and leaving behind financial ruin for many ordinary Dutch families.
Mark Cuthbertson's set reveals itself to be a multilayer tent as the black walls collapse away and become white.
Despite that, trad's fate has been to be mocked for being hopelessly retrospective, a situation not helped by its collapse, away from Barber and Lyttleton's scholarly approach, towards novelty records and the twee theatrics of Acker Bilk's bowler hats.
A man who wants to abolish private schools and the monarchy, who'd probably build a Refugees Welcome centre on the playing fields of Eton, is now 50 swing seats and an SNP collapse away from getting to do exactly those things.
A man who wants to abolish private schools and the monarchy, who'd probably build a Refugees Welcome center on the playing fields of Eton, is now 50 swing seats and an SNP collapse away from getting to do exactly those things.
No one anticipates that North Korea will collapse right away.
So very small in conventional terms, but big enough that the roundness of the bubble and the surface tension of the bubble don't cause them to collapse right away.
Unlike many of the partygoers, some of whom are still searching for jobs, Mr. Kraus was able to cash out of his dot-com shares before the stock collapsed and came away with enough money -- he declines to say how much -- that he does not need to work.
