If several firms choose to copy a drug, prices soon tumble.
It worked: the economy was growing again by late 2009; the deficit soon tumbled.
Conventional wisdom had it that 2005 was the top of the copper market and that commodity prices would soon tumble.
It soon tumbled to less than $6, as shareholders' lawyers scrambled to file class-action suits, and Moody's warned of a potential credit downgrade.
Some big Chinese news portals initially carried a short dispatch on Google's announcement, but that account soon tumbled from the headlines, and later reports omitted Google's references to "free speech" and "surveillance".
Jupiter, though, will soon tumble westwards to disappear into our summer evening twilight, only to reappear in time for a spectacular conjunction just 0.2° from the even brighter planet Venus in the morning twilight on August 18.
It sounded reasonable in theory, but accounts of resulting hardship soon tumbled out – the family charged for a spare room after a child died, the mother charged when two army sons were sent to Afghanistan.
And, while Mr. Downing suggested that the 40 Neiman stores would not soon tumble to discount fever, much of their merchandise had already been marked down by 40percentt, a sure sign that the line on price reduction cannot be held by any single player in luxury goods.
But while much of the revolution still stands, its main architect could soon come tumbling down.
One side of the wall soon came tumbling down, and some of the children ran into the playground.
