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to implosion

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The inrush of air in forming a suction stop.

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• At this point, the supercommittee looks close to implosion.

In capturing these strange tales of love and grief, Foer pushes language to implosion point.

Lagarde saw how near to implosion it was in the "tsunami" — as she calls it in the new documentary "Inside Job" — of 2008.

In the early days, forcing her dancers to more and more extreme degrees of self-revelation, Bausch brought the company close to implosion.

WITH all the hand-wringing about the economic perils of falling populations, and the prospect of a spreading demographic shift from explosion to implosion, there could be one beneficiary: the environment.

In part it is this rapid transition from purring routine to panicked disarray, the same on the Titanic a century ago as in the Twin Towers a decade ago, with similar countdowns from impact to implosion leaving an hour or two for agonized reflection, and the way this reminds us of the maelstrom always lurking behind order.

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The demolition companies involved appealed to the public on the day prior to the implosion to stay away for health and safety reasons, and watch the proceedings on TV or the internet.

If assuming a radius of one AU, then the compressive strength of the material forming the sphere would have to be immense to prevent implosion due to the star's gravity.

Two years ago the financial services industry accounted for 18.4% of the total value of all stocks in the S&P 500 index; now, thanks to implosions at Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and a slew of other banking firms, the tattered group contributes just 12.6%.

Mitt Romney is taking his attacks on Newt Gingrich up a notch in a new television ad that tries to link him to the implosion of the housing market.

The rise of the populist right owes more to the implosion of the beaten Solidarity government than to any lurch to xenophobia.

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