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Given the world economic melt-down, we'll probably be pitching a tent somewhere in the jungle down there; swatting skeeters with the hope we don't come down with the dengue.
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The earthquake, tsunami and impending threat of melt-down at nuclear plants have catapulted Japan to the top of prophecy web sites.
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Little more than a year after the melt-down of the financial system and the near-collapse of the stock market, the investment banks and hedge funds and all-too-many of the other high fliers are at it again, paying enormous bonuses to executives, generally for those who can multiply profits to an obscene degree.
The Accountability Problem « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Given the world economic melt-down, we'll probably be pitching a tent somewhere in the jungle down there; swatting skeeters with the hope we don't come down with the dengue.
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According to the New York Times, Bush's 2005 visit to Calvert Cliffs was the first by any president to a US reactor site in 30 years (except for Jimmy Carter's harried trip to the control room of Three Mile Island during its 1979 melt-down).
Harvey Wasserman: Nuke "Renaissance" Leaps off Calvert Cliffs Harvey Wasserman 2010
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Little more than a year after the melt-down of the financial system and the near-collapse of the stock market, the investment banks and hedge funds and all-too-many of the other high fliers are at it again, paying enormous bonuses to executives, generally for those who can multiply profits to an obscene degree.
December « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Given the world economic melt-down, we'll probably be pitching a tent somewhere in the jungle down there; swatting skeeters with the hope we don't come down with the dengue.
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Before the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, please list any time our financial sector faced a similar near complete melt-down like that of the last year … ….
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Watch the explosion at reactor number one in FukushimaSaturday, residents within 20 kilometers of the plant were evacuated, while government officials said there is no danger of a melt-down and large-scale radiation release, like the one at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986 that sent radioactive clouds billowing across Europe.
US Nuclear Experts Worry About Possible Japan Reactor Meltdown 2011
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Given the world economic melt-down, we'll probably be pitching a tent somewhere in the jungle down there; swatting skeeters with the hope we don't come down with the dengue.
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