Crystal Palace have lost only against Arsenal their last 15 top-flight games but are cramped at present by the prospect of collisions with Tottenham, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool in five fixtures from the end of this month.
That information is being analyzed, and the prospect of a collision in orbit remains one of many possibilities, Mr. Beutel said.
In the meantime, he has been dealing with new crises every day — notably, the current partial shutdown of the federal government and the prospect of a collision with the debt ceiling in the weeks ahead.
The prospect of the collision has some lawmakers envisioning December as a mini-replay of the "fiscal cliff" of 2012, when trillions of dollars in tax cuts were set to expire on New Year's Day and tens of billions in automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, were slated to kick in two days later.
The prospect of another spiky collision with José Mourinho, and Manchester United, in the domestic season finale will merely add to the sense of occasion.
Nothing could have underlined more effectively the deep underlying anxiety of Labour's rank and file about the prospect of a head-on collision between their government and the trade union movement.
Concern is rising over the prospect of a repeat of the collision in April 2001 between a US EP3 spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter.
CERN's collider, just outside Geneva, is now down for two years of repairs, but its teams have stockpiled their unanalyzed data, and look forward to the prospect of more years of high-energy collisions starting in 2015.
These hazardous objects increase the likelihood of collision and injury.
Thus, independent of the type of collision event, collisions generate geometry in a space-time interval.
