The desire to offer every conceivable opportunity is a "displaced fear about the collapse of the future," Dr. Mogel said.
Collapse is conceivable but certainly not desirable.
Strange things can happen in football but such a collapse is scarcely conceivable.
Airborne concentrations of WTC PM2.5 that would cause comparable doses in people are high (approximately 425 microg/m3 for 8 hr) but conceivable in the aftermath of the collapse of the towers when rescue and salvage efforts were in effect.
"If that is dismantled, it is conceivable that Nato and the EU could collapse too".
He added: "I don't expect that we will run into anything resembling a collapsing bubble," though it's "conceivable that we will get some reduction in overall prices as we've had in the past, but that is not a particular problem".
"It is quite conceivable — many would say probable — that the severe asset price collapses that have occurred in both equity and real estate will prompt a lasting increase in the desired saving rate, at least on the part of many consumers," Ed McKelvey, an economist at Goldman Sachs, wrote in a note last week.
In particular, since the financial crash, the collapse of a western democracy and its replacement by a fascistic regime has begun to seem conceivable.
By the mid-1980s, the British soap tackled social issues – racism, sexism, industrial collapse, class politics, HIV, violence against women, child abuse, cot death, Down's syndrome – in ways scarcely conceivable across the Atlantic.
The other 5,100 retirees of the firm who were not partners have a bit more financial backing for their retirement benefits, though a collapse of Andersen could send everyone to court to try to collect what they have been promised from every conceivable source.
