They were ballplayers, but in a sense, they were also ghosts, casualties of an immense corporate collapse, with the name of their defunct former employer emblazoned on their torsos: Dewey.
When the sales evaporated, this immense company collapsed.
Ireland had inflated a property bubble far greater than the American one, and losses were going to be immense when prices collapsed.
Suddenly he heard what he later described as the "immense noise" of the collapse of the second tower not long after the second hijacked jet had exploded into it.
Eventually, sometime about 2.5 billion years ago, the weight of the sediments caused the lake's icy ceiling to collapse, sending immense amounts of water to the surface, the researchers propose online this month in Icarus.
Soon after that article was printed, the financial edifice Mr. Weill took credit for helping to build collapsed, inflicting immense collateral damage in the process.
There is an astounding disproportion between the actual strength of the terrorists and the fear they manage to inspire It is because the Pentagon is a relatively flat and unassuming building, whereas the World Trade Center was a tall, phallic totem whose collapse created an immense audiovisual effect.
Just as he's about to fire, Cartmans new immense weight causes the stage to collapse, catapulting Cathie Lee off it, and causing the bullet to hit third-grader Kenny in the head.
Nevertheless, these banks and financial institutions are still trading at a value that is a fraction of what they were worth in 2007 and 2008 prior to the collapse, which means the opportunity for immense growth exists.
The important thing, however, is to realize that there are degrees of disaster, that you can have an immense failure of economic policy that falls short of producing total collapse.
