But now many property experts question whether the tower, and dozens of other skyscraper projects on the drawing board, will join the skyline of Britain's cities. Yesterday economists predicted the property downturn could last throughout 2008, with pessimists forecasting a full-scale collapse on a scale not seen since the early 1990s.
Indeed, the market seems to be betting on a BCE deal at a lower price — as was the outcome of the dispute over the Clear Channel Communications buyout — as opposed to a full-scale collapse of the deal.
It would also send shock waves through Asian countries fearful of Chinese expansionism.The nuclear optionIn the case of full-scale collapse, American troops stationed south of the 38th parallel would try to secure North Korea's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their production facilities.
Denmark is outside the euro, but even German politicians joke about the nasty surprises in their banks' balance-sheets.None of this presages a full-scale collapse: European banks have more capital than they did before the start of the crisis.
The degradation of collapse performance is demonstrated through results from full-scale collapse experiments.
The United States continues to allow bluefin fishing in its waters even though the Gulf of Mexico-spawned stock is considered by many scientists to have entered into full-scale collapse.
Documents in the Chinese Foreign Ministry Archive describe China's intensive interactions with the DPRK during the last full-scale collapse scenario in 1950.
Most economists agree with Milton Friedman, who gave a speech on this topic in Sweden in 1954, arguing that government leaders and central bankers now understand the basic inner workings of the economy and have the technical tools to prevent a full-scale collapse.
Did this prevent a full-scale collapse?
To those who have seen most of his matches over the past 15 years, O'Sullivan did not look quite right, although his unease was well short of degenerating into the full-scale collapses which sit on his record alongside many memorable triumphs.
The full scale of the defects emerged after a wall collapsed into a playground at Oxgangs primary school during a storm in January; inspections later uncovered the same defects at another primary school and then Gracemount and Craigmount.
