If animosity toward intellectuals, limited state funding, competition from for-profit colleges, decreasing federal research dollars, crumbling infrastructure, and rising tuition weren't enough, it's now possible to deliver any information, anytime, via smartphone.
And with our dollar crumbling there should be some advantage in export pricing.
New hotels are being built, foreign tourists spend their dollars and crumbling colonial buildings in old Havana are being restored.
The land program is being carried out while the economy collapses, unemployment and inflation race higher and the value of the Zimbabwean dollar crumbles.
It is spending tens of thousands of dollars to refurbish crumbling schools and has replaced aging clay water pipes in the suburb of Kufa with more durable plastic ones.
Well before President Obama's stimulus package completed its tortuous path through Congress last week, state and local officials facing multimillion-dollar budget deficits, crumbling infrastructure and the prospect of massive reductions in services were already jockeying for the upper hand in deciding how the money should be spent.
Since the controversy broke, several executives have departed, its multibillion-dollar takeover bid for British Sky Broadcasting has crumbled, and The News of the World, a century-plus-old newspaper, has shuttered.
It's best if they are coins that you're putting in the piggy bank slot because if it is a dollar then it will get all crumbled at the edges.
IN THE three months following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, as the world economy crumbled and investors scrambled for shelter, the dollar rose by 5% against a basket of other widely used currencies.
As world markets crumbled and the global recession intensified, the dollar once again became the popular currency to hold.
And we've spent trillions of dollars overseas, while our infrastructure at home has so badly crumbled.
