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Still critically ill. He's in our intensive care unit. He suffered some collapse of one of his lungs.

It's hard because I dreamed about the Olympics for upwards of a decade. And that dream didn't include getting sick with a stomach flu, getting stuck with IVs, having my veins collapse and falling in the short program. It became about something different ... courage.

I wanted to be able to watch world history in the making. In less than two years, I was able to witness the collapse of two regimes. It's cool to open a world almanac and know that I was a part of history.

It was obviously teetering on the brink of collapse during the time that I was there.

It will create some short-term noise in a (stock) market that's already looking to try and take some profits on anything related to China. You are not going to get a collapse in demand out of China.

It was good year for car sales overall, but GM, Ford suffered particularly because of the collapse of their big SUVs.

The wage story is gathering real momentum. The Fed is going to 5%, and more if housing does not collapse by mid-year.

After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.

Anytime you see a double-digit lead collapse to a tie, that is a significant trend.

evidence of the collapse of any central regime authority.

I'm afraid this is the last chance, because a collapse of this summit may lead to, as I've said before, despair on both sides, and despair leads to violence.

Indictments today are a significant milestone in our unabated efforts to expose and punish the vast array of criminal conduct related to the collapse of Enron Corporation,

In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.

In many cases, it was from their homes at gunpoint. There were no receipts given or anything else at a time when there was no 911 response and these citizens were out there on their own protecting their families, ... The worst thing about it is that it was at a time of complete collapse of the government's ability to protect people and they were trying to protect themselves.

I knew I wanted the ending of the story to be poignant and heart-felt, and secondly, because I didn't know if I would be able to do that, since my previous novels hadn't been good enough to publish. If I couldn't do it, I didn't want to waste my time writing the rest of the novel, knowing it would collapse at the end.

I knew the time was running out and I just tried to get it high and give it a chance to go in. I knew they (Irish) were going to collapse on Daniel and I was waiting for the pass.

I knew that in the past that these financial panics had often triggered far worse consequences. I was actually less concerned about the market than the potential for collapse of the world financial system.

If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.

If one of those friendly societies itself runs into environmental problems and collapses for environmental reasons, that collapse may then drag down their trade partners.

If there is contagion from a collapse in confidence in the U.S., that could impact Europe,

If under these circumstances the F.O.M.C. is prepared to keep going, then this means that the committee is more worried about the longer-term risk of higher inflation than the shorter-term risk of a collapse in growth.

If you pull troops out too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.

If you pull out troops too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.

(In the first half) I made a lot of mistakes, but I couldn't see that court as well when they would collapse on me. In the second half, I had to find my way to block and score.

I just think we are going to have a flattening of the appreciation curve. There are negative prognosticators speaking about the collapse of housing and I don't think that is true.

I'll probably collapse for a day and get right back into something else.

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

In the past, we've been skeptical about (collaboration). But we felt that the industry is on the threshold of collapse if something doesn't get done soon. This is one way to resolve the problem.

He would ski until he absolutely didn't have any energy left and then he would collapse and fall asleep.

But in the face of big challenges such as habitat loss, pollution of coastal zones, and species loss, and the high seas collapse of fish stocks, the whole marine realm is becoming rapidly more important,

He's so good at breaking down defenses and making them collapse that all you have to do is find that open seam and get in his vision. You trust that once you're in his vision, sooner or later he's going to find you, and from there it's being in rhythm and shooting. His presence out there is what opens that whole thing up.

By the end of the '50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

He suffered some collapse of one of his lungs. And we're trying to reopen that and there's good progress there.

He's a powerful enough man that when you line him up inside, he can collapse the pocket. That makes us better on the perimeter, because he can take some pressure off those ends to have to get to the quarterback and force him to have to work towards our ends.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.

I don't think there is anybody who can guard her one-on-one. Teams have to collapse on her when she gets the ball in her hands.

I don't see a collapse of America's involvement.

I don't see how this can end well. I think the perception is that the deal will collapse and it will be full legal employment for both sides. I cannot see how they can avoid this all ending up in court.

I don't think the market is going to collapse and I don't think it's going to go through the roof. If I had to guess, I'd say the market's going to go sideways over the next two weeks.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.

The jury's out on whether this election can bring Bolivia back from the precipice of national collapse or whether it will generate even more political tension and perhaps a break-up of the country.

The huge rebound in orders shows that, not only did the economy not collapse in June, but it is actually moving ahead at a decent clip,

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

The electric and gas industries could easily collapse if they don't put a plan in place for staffing, retention, recruitment, and training.

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.

The great thing about this team is that everybody understands their roles, and they know what their doing and what we expect out of them. Because of that, we really haven't had any kind of collapse yet.

The Indians have their grey areas. They depend heavily on their strong batting but even then collapse like a pack of cards. They are devastating and poor at times.

You've got to dig down on the post when someone has three or four dribbles and just collapse against the ball. When you don't do that, you allow teams to get into a rhythm even if they're not making shots.

And so the organism can become established, can compete with the local population, can cause the collapse of the food chain.

All those who had risen on Internet prospects are now falling with the technology collapse in the states.

The game was in our hands. We led for 46 minutes. It was a basic collapse by our team in the fourth quarter.

The economy is creating over two million new jobs a year and these workers will need housing. Fears of a collapse in the housing market have been overblown.

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.

The development of these states took hundreds of years, but the collapse appears to have been very sudden. Some people link it to climate. Some link it to local revolts.

The frustration has been building and defeat has tightened the noose around Sven's neck. Once again punters are looking to get rid of the Swede and have forced the collapse in our price.

The collapse of the ABM Treaty would, therefore, undermine the entirety of disarmament agreements concluded over the last 30 years,

The collapse of stocks in Japan has caused a domino effect in Hong Kong and investors are looking for a reason to sell.

The collapse in languages is a catastrophe. The Government is going to have to reverse its policy of allowing students to opt out at 14.

the collapse in external and internal confidence would lead to a more serious situation.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

And I'd rush back to the house and sit down at the computer and knock out a first draft of a Roy chapter and just collapse in those evenings, because it was -- I hate to admit it -- opening up some shadow side of myself and immersing myself there for that moment,

The market should keep doing well in the short term. There's the seasonal factors, the economy should keep doing OK, and from a technical standpoint, things still look good. I think that's why the market has been able to ignore the negative implications of the collapse of the dollar so far.

The main task now is not to let the building collapse further.

I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

The work of memory collapses time.

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, now you have these dispersed power centers, ... They are clearly still working out the kinks.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.