What finally saved the city was anxiety about the fallout, in the form of possible bank insolvencies and borrowing costs for the rest of America, had it been unable to pay its debts.New York's federal bail-out was punitive, however.
In the coming decades, if current scientific thinking proves correct, California and many other parts of the world could face climatic fallout in the form of rising sea levels, more wildfires, water shortages, and pollution-aggravating heat waves.
But as my colleagues Michael Wines and Sharon LaFraniere report, the Communist Party sought on Wednesday to close ranks and reduce the fallout, issuing guidance in the form of a front-page commentary in The People's Daily, a government mouthpiece.
Parents were advised not to let children play in sand or dirt, particularly in the northeast where the cloud left the greatest dusting of radioactive fallout, 80percentt of it in the form of iodine 131, which has been linked to thyroid cancer.
What I didn't anticipate, however, was the fallout that would come in the form of a disingenuous "friend" who attempted to shade my truth by becoming an overgrown mean girl.
While a portion of the U.S. population is galvanized by what they see as a straight-shooting populist who's returning strength and pride in being American, another segment fears the fallout of his presidency in the form of scandal, possible nuclear war, and environmental disaster.
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, Tokyo Electric Power, estimates that 18,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials flowed into the Pacific after the accident, either in the form of fallout, or through mixing with water that leaked from the facility.
The remaining 15 percent is released as initial radiation, produced within the first minute or so, and residual (or delayed) radiation, emitted over a period of time, some of which can be in the form of local fallout.
In fact if there is to be a fallout from this international break, it may come in the form of a hangover.
While the tournament continues in the form of the knockout stages, the fallout from England's pool stage elimination is focusing around the future of two men, Robshaw and the head coach Stuart Lancaster.
The Atrocity Exhibition visits terrible violence on these female celebrity bodies, in the form of plane and car crashes, nuclear fallout, disasters of all kinds.
