The excuses came thick and fast all week, as European Union leaders, for all their customary talk of collective action, were forced by the world credit meltdown into a hotch-potch of individual national schemes to guarantee deposits and prop up banks (see article).The most amusing excuse for Europe's disarray came from François Fillon, the prime minister of France.
The leaked emails are swimming against a very powerful tide -- that of Donald Trump's absolute meltdown into misogyny.
I won't carry the baggage of yesterday's explosion or last week's near meltdown into tomorrow.
Brown, like Schwarzenegger before him, is dealing with a chronic crisis greatly exacerbated by the global financial meltdown into a front burner crisis.
At the end of last week, I wrote, in no little amazement, of Whitman's near meltdown into possibly terminal arrogance in stiffing the press.
Those glories and pitfalls of boozing are the focus of Jordan Vogt-Roberts's 25-minute short film, Successful Alcoholics, which structures a young couple's weekend meltdown into a strangely poignant, yet perfectly timed dark comedy.
There's a fascinating story beneath the pixel-art violence, too, involving the Russian mafia, the Miami underground and our antihero protagonist Jacket's meltdown into a surreal unknown.
As tempting as it is, it's hard to reduce the entire mortgage meltdown into a jargon-free sound bite without tripping over the old clichés about Wall Street's hubris and greed.
Not four years after Barack Obama's convention speech imploring us to believe that states don't come in colors, the meltdown into red and blue threatens the newborn democratic processes that lifted our spirits just a few weeks back.
Robotics is also key in decommissioning the three reactors in Fukushima, northern Japan, which went into meltdowns in 2011, in the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.
