"It looked like a lot of impact was on the passenger side of the van, that whole roof collapsed down," Mr. Prozzillo said.
His optimism, that swollen red giant, collapsed down to a bone-crushing point of gloom.
A pedestrian was killed after lightning struck the rooftop of a Brooklyn church, bringing bricks down onto scaffolding that collapsed on him during thunderstorms on Thursday night, the authorities said.
"We've been down that road before," said Mr. Smith, referring to the 1997 settlement proposal that collapsed in Congress.
Yulia A. Rusanova, an automotive industry analyst at Deutsche Bank in Moscow, said the problem was that Avtovaz's planning horizons had collapsed down to a matter of months.
After a while she abandons her mother and Ingrid to visit her estranged father with his new young wife and baby in Athens, a broken city, even more damaged than Spain by economic collapse; her father, a wealthy man, confines her to a storeroom with no window and a camp bed that collapses as soon as she lies down on it.
Syracuse's loss left its N.C.A.A. tournament fate to a selection committee that historically is not moved to invite teams that collapse down the stretch.
Consider the simplicial map f : [ v 0, v 1, v 2 ] → [ v 0, v 1 ], determined by f ( v 0 ) = v 0, f ( v 1 ) = v 1, f ( v 2 ) = v 1, that collapses the ( 8, 2 ) -simplex down to the ( 8, 1 ) -simplex (see Figure 5).
