Not exact matches
The
collapse of two high - profile deals in such a short time frame is a rarity for Buffett, who has spent decades
building Berkshire
into a sprawling conglomerate through shrewd takeovers.
Enterprises that took years to
build — that once ruled the world — can
collapse into smoking heaps right before your eyes.
Even as Bangladesh tries to extricate itself from the Rana Plaza
building collapse, the Dhaka disaster that killed more than 1,100 garment workers, one private equity fund is trying to infuse new capital
into the economy: The $ 88 million Frontier Fund, a private equity fund managed by Brummer & Partners, a Stockholm - based asset manager.
MILESTONES: BANGLADESH By Udayan Gupta Even as Bangladesh tries to extricate itself from the Rana Plaza
building collapse, the Dhaka disaster that killed more than 1,100 garment workers, one private equity fund is trying to infuse new capital
into...
New technology
building booms and subsequent
collapses are, historically normal and common following the introduction of new and transformative technologies, and we have seen them in the US and British automobile industries, the late 20th century communications «tech wreck», the rise and contraction cell phone manufacturers, and the explosion of entry
into US telecommunications post «deregulation» in the US, just to cite a few.
We are basically disputing over a piece of toast that has the crude image of Jesus burnt
into it but we go it for free on ebay — the cross by no way is perfect and its shape is bound to happen based on the nature of how really tall
building collapse and their architecture with many perpendicular angles.
People, who have visions of those missiles crashing
into our public
buildings, whose friends, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, relatives were killed, whose firemen, policemen, service personnel lost their lives, whose businesses have
collapsed, whose futures are in jeopardy, whose grief is overwhelming — can they respond to a call for creative justice?
The seat can be forward facing or rear facing, the baby sits very high up compared to other strollers, it has a huge sunshade flap that's easy to pop down, it has a
built in diaper bag / storage, and it is pretty easy to
collapse to fit
into the trunk.
The 86 - year - old bridge, between Lucas Turnpike (county Route 1) and Berme Road,
collapsed into the water below, making way for a new span that's expected to cost $ 12.4 million to
build and open to traffic by June 30.
Residents of Onifufu / Aderupagba Compound, in the Oke - Ijeun area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, were Thursday thrown
into mourning after a dilapidated mud
building collapsed, killing...
As for how to keep the tunnel walls from
collapsing: The spiders studied incorporate silk threads
into the tunnel as they
build it, so it remains standing even if all the surrounding sand is removed.
For example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly
into tight crawlspaces such as mines or
collapsed buildings.
After the Soviet Union
collapsed, desperate Kazakh villagers
built a primitive dam out of sand to keep the water that trickled
into the northern sea from draining away
into the southern portion.
Some
buildings were reduced to rubble; others
collapsed into pancakelike stacks.
Castles of stone or sand eventually
collapse, the bodies of those who
build such castles ultimately decay, in the meantime the food they eat is broken and only temporarily rebuilt
into muscles.
Field pattern theory does not yet contain a provision for the pattern to
collapse back
into a single point, however, but Milton and Mattei think that field patterns may have a connection to the basic
building blocks of matter.
It's linked to the
building management system, in that if the space gets too hot, you pump air
into these pillow skylights and it
collapses the top and the middle layer and it screens the sun and then when it cools off it opens up again.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a two - year, $ 16 million study of the twin - tower
collapse that will address three pressing questions: whether current testing standards and
building codes are adequate to resist catastrophic fires; whether
building codes sufficiently take
into account what engineers call progressive
collapse, the chain reaction that leads to extremely rapid
collapse (in the case of the World Trade Center towers, about 10 seconds); and how existing
buildings can be made less vulnerable to terrorist attack.
Yet not long after they were
built, the houses burned down and
collapsed into the water, preserving their contents.
Liquefaction can undermine the foundations and supports of
buildings, bridges, pipelines, and roads, causing them to sink
into the ground,
collapse or dissolve.
► A gorilla grows quickly to about 20 feet, roaring
into the camera and beating his chest until sanctuary staff place him in a cage; he becomes angry and breaks out, smashing walls, doors, windows and equipment, jumps over a
building and
into the street, smashing an SUV with his fists, and a man points a tranquilizer rifle but does not shoot; police cars cut the animal off as a helicopter with armed men flies by and they shoot the gorilla with large tranquilizer darts (the gorilla
collapses, unconscious).
An impeccably cast Tom Hiddleston stars as a new tenant at a super-modern (by mid-1970s standards, anyway) apartment
building on the outskirts of London, who watches his neighbors
collapse into post-apocalyptic anarchy and inter-floor warfare.
Using the premise as the scaffolding to
build a gangland soap opera that evokes the life of famed Boston gangster James «Whitey» Bulger, Scorsese's film combines two different love interests
into one Vera Farmiga and
collapses a sordid trilogy
into a breathlessly tight story of double lives and second chances.
As part of the First Response unit to arrive at the scene, McLoughlin and Jimeno lead a rescue party of five men
into the
building, only to fall victim to the wreckage when the towers
collapse.
The first trailer showcased some «Inception» - esque visuals of
buildings collapsing into themselves, and even the most recent posters have mind - bending effects placed on them.
Asghar Farhadi begins The Salesman by thrusting both his characters and his audience
into a fit of panic when the residents of a Tehran apartment
building discover that their home is on the verge of
collapse.
The climax is a shoot - out in a
building collapsing into the canals of Venice, which provides an added dynamic to what could be pretty standard stuff.
The 700 immigrants from those three ships were the first to pass through Ellis Island and
into AmericaBut this turned out to be only the first Ellis Island station, because on June 15, 1897 a fire broke out in one of the towers in the main
building, and the roof
collapsed.
Both terrified and excited, Beetle had waded through nests of shredded fabrics, dirty sweaters, blue jeans, and kids» blankets, all culled from the abandoned storefronts and dragged
into the basement of one of the
collapsed buildings on Main Street.
My attempt to restore this weekly feature on my blog was thwarted a few months
into the year by a series of challenging, distressing, exhilarating, and generally overwhelming events — from editing a new speculative fiction anthology to the death of my mother - in - law, from a six - week home renovation to a partial roof
collapse at my place of employment that caused 100 - hour work weeks, from caring for a sick bunny (he's better now, thankfully) to
building a new website for one of the small - press publishers I work with.
The sheer scale of the carnage allows plenty of un-scripted awesome moments to occur on the battlefield, such as a radio tower
collapsing after being hit by a jet, crushing all who are underneath it, or a mad last - minute raid
into enemy territory in a jeep, narrowly avoiding been hit by the enemy tanks before clearing out an entire enemy base only to the be stopped by some smart - ass who rigged the
building with C - 4.
People talk about the train level a lot, but to me the coolest thing was staging a shootout in a
building that is
collapsing, so you have to leap through the window
into the NEXT
building and continue the shootout!
It's the Free Fall dynamic multiplayer map we're most looking forward too though, which throws you
into the heat of combat in a
collapsing tower
building hundreds of feet above the streets below.
Building are
collapsing, mountain are sinking
into the ground, constructions are under attack... Humans are panicking and can only hope for one thing, being rescued by your rocket, which really seems like their last hope!
Maybe like
buildings that
collapse when the pigs structures are destroyed by firing the birds
into them?
Rey Akdogan does it with metal tiling as incomplete as that of Carl Andre, Olof Inger with trash bags converted
into the painting of light and space, Gabriel Kuri with black slabs crushing beer or soda cans like a Richard Serra that
collapsed during an opening, Charlotte Posenenske with heat ducts as
building blocks, Cameron Rowland with shelving brackets as line drawing, and Jean - Luc Moulène with rebar as an open cage.
Warsaw - based Monika Sosnowska
builds architectural forms in response to specific spaces, then manipulates them,
collapsing, deflating, and squeezing the work
into alternate settings.
The commission's title, «Pylon and Pier», is extracted from the second stanza, a description of the demolition of a modernist
building facing
into a square read as a metaphor for systemic
collapse.»
Some of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down on a rubber stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually
collapse in full, slamming a weird sort of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the
building's wall, jumping
into the East River and then reappearing inside of a barrel of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself
into a pile of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn - out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number of glasses of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.
Benefit from a team comprised of practitioners with a sound legal and commercial understanding of the various complex issues involved in
building and construction projects who have distinguished themselves in their successful handling of significant high profile cases, including the inquiry
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collapse.
It hits like an earthquake and they scramble to find solid ground; often stepping
into a
collapsing building instead of to safety.
The Landlord and Federal Express entered
into a
build out agreement, but the Landlord was unable to finance the project and so the deal
collapsed.