As share options crumbled, so did dreams of buying that $2m house in Palo Alto.Now Internet-related firms are once again bracing themselves for the inevitable.
Just to be safe, his wife, Karla, and their sons Owen, 10; Lukas, 7; and Cole, 4; are once again bracing themselves.
As the peak season for the nation's accounting firms begins, David Leeds's team at Ernst & Young is once again bracing for two months of 60-hour weeks auditing the books of a major bank in Atlanta.
Voskou, who fled Northern Cyprus after the Turkish invasion in 1974, is once again bracing herself for a period of political and personal instability.
Refugee groups are once again bracing for airport chaos and last-minute trip cancellations.
Friends: we've just been alerted that America should once again brace itself for a frigid blast of arctic air.
As another winter approaches, England's homeless population once again prepares to brace itself for the cruel months ahead, mustering the fight to survive against the harsh elements and a system that promises little hope for permanent refuge anytime soon.
As teams prepare for the 2012 season, which begins Saturday with an exhibition race at Daytona International Speedway leading up to the Daytona 500 on Feb. 26, fans once again will watch and brace for what the Busch brothers might do next.
The New Jersey Office of Emergency Management planned to open an emergency operations center on Thursday morning in advance of expected flooding in Passaic, Morris and Essex Counties, and residents in the state's flood-prone areas braced themselves once again.
John Gray, in his bleak yet bracing new book, once again addresses himself to the follies, delusions and willed blindness of our smugly arrogant times, in which, despite our arrogance, we cower before the twin menaces of old and new barbarisms.
