In a way, the review team's conclusion, announced on Tuesday, seemed inevitable in a city that has wrestled with more than $14 billion in long-term liabilities, nearly annual projections of imminent cash shortfalls and a population — and accompanying tax base — that has plunged to 713,000 residents from 1.8 million decades ago.
Their towering self-importance - to which all of society sadly contributes - is only matched by their imminent and nearly instantaneous irrelevance.
Shortly after 10 Monday night — about 1 a.m. on the East Coast — public school officials in Los Angeles and New York received nearly identical emails promising imminent attacks on campuses involving explosives and gunmen.
Activists from Jewish groups, including the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Bend the Arc Jewish Action and the Anti-Defamation League, were there to demand immediate passage of the Dream Act, legislation that could protect nearly 800,000 Dreamers from imminent deportation and provide them with a pathway to citizenship.
Trump is currently negotiating an immigration deal with Congress to avert a situation he caused: the imminent threat of nearly 700,000 undocumented young people losing deportation relief because he ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
Conflict, drought, displacement and disease are driving a massive humanitarian crisis, with nearly 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition this year.
The release of Walsh's final report, which contains the findings of nearly seven years of investigation, is imminent.
Famine is looming in north-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen and beyond, as nearly 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition this year.
Arizona, staring down imminent rationing of Colorado River water, pumps nearly half its supplies from aquifers.
This included nearly all data-based occupations, and with the imminent arrival of autonomous vehicles, most transport functions.
The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the copper oxides nearly thirty years ago raised hopes for the imminent realization of room-temperature superconductivity.
