Sentences with phrase «danger of a meltdown»

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Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.

But we face another danger that is in many ways more threatening than a meltdown: the steady accumulation of radioactive waste.

Heinlein developed an entire «future history» that included warnings of the dangers of nuclear meltdowns.

«The danger of global warming is as grave a threat to our country's and our world's future as the meltdown of its credit markets.

In preparing to help write an article about the catastrophic meltdown of traditional universal life insurance policies I was seeking some industry assistance in nailing down approximately what percentage of the total number of UL's were in danger of imploding.