By pleading guilty to a single felony count after a three-year Justice Department investigation, Ms. Brooks, 50, faces up to three years in prison and a fine that could potentially soar into the hundreds of millions of dollars when she is sentenced Jan . 5
The risk is that the number of failing states, already increasing year by year, will increase dramatically under the potentially unmanageable burden of soaring food prices and spreading hunger.
But while Bear Stearns shareholders stand to lose billions of dollars, Mr. Dimon has scooped up potentially lucrative businesses and Bear's soaring New York headquarters on the cheap.
Add in soaring heating bills and, potentially, freezing pensioners, and the fall-out, particularly for Mr Bush, could be nasty.Higher heating bills would be only a short-term burden for consumers.
Vince Cable today warned bankers against embarking on a "self-indulgent bonus round" as he put soaring executive pay and potentially destructive takeovers at the heart of a new government review into the way the City operates.
That will leave health plans the costly task of meeting many different standards, potentially driving up premiums that are already soaring.
The soaring cost of food is potentially the most explosive challenge facing the military-backed government that has run this country since Jan .11, when, after debilitating political protests, scheduled elections were scrapped and emergency law was imposed.
Meanwhile, the combination of fracking and horizontal drilling has sent potentially recoverable amounts of natural gas nationwide soaring.
Its report of a potentially huge Indonesian gold find had sent its shares soaring, but they collapsed as the site was found to contain nothing worth mining.
When completion of the $100 million Milwaukee Art Museum expansion was delayed nearly six months in 2001, the press twittered about the soaring brise soleil's complexity and its potentially ungainly flap in high winds.
