But by that time, borrowers with high credit scores were getting scarcer, and Countrywide faced the prospect of collapsing revenue and profits.
Last night American was facing the prospect of collapsing confidence in its security procedures as it revealed that only 30 of the single-aisle planes had passed through the inspection process.
But for Mill, the prospect of collapsing heavens would easily justify appealing directly to the principle of utility at the expense of respect for moral rights.
The money which would have to be spent developing a new generation of nuclear stations could massively stimulate other forms of renewables". Civil nuclear power was barely debated in Britain when introduced more than 40 years ago, and its prospects collapsed almost without public discussion when the financiers saw the figures did not stack up in the 1990s.
A group of 20 teenagers who were lobbying for the bill came to the council chambers after school and looked disappointed as its prospects collapsed.
I explained that Europe's banks were under-capitalized by billions and that the prospect of them collapsing jeopardized the safety of the entire European economy — we could not run capitalism without capital.
The prospect of a collapsing, senescent population struggling to maintain its living standards and its infrastructure seems like a vision from a dystopian novel, but it's something the Japanese are having to take seriously.
"You want to get an arrangement that can improve the situation so the prospect for it collapsing quickly or a return to these kinds of problems is minimized if not altogether eliminated," Mr. Khalilzad told reporters.
But most banks have so far been able to cover losses from bad subprime bets and soured buy-outs with revenue from businesses such as share-trading and merger advisory work, which are still booming.If anything is keeping Wall Street grandees up at night, it is the prospect of bridges collapsing.
Cyprus needed to come up with billions of dollars to help cover the costs of the bailout of the country's financial sector, or its European allies said they would leave it to face the prospect of collapse alone.
The engineering group - which has debts of some £3.5bn and employs 10,000 people in the UK - was facing the prospect of collapse after an earlier French government plan to take a 30% stake in the company via a rights issue fell foul of EU state aid rules.
