At home, the president is also hobbled by the Iraq cancer’s metastasis — the twin implosions of Alberto Gonzales and Paul Wolfowitz. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A smaller, but growing, group of countries (all of them in Eastern Europe) are experiencing demographic "implosions," with rapidly aging populations. ❋ Otaviano Canuto (2010)
Yet the real danger may not be explosions in the center of town, but "implosions" on Wall Street. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The similarities to videos of building "implosions" under controlled demolition are astonishing. ❋ Jeremy R. Hammond (2010)
Little stunts like not playing the last hidden immunity idol at the final tribal council where he could do so are exactly the kind of implosions on his part that will likely keep him from winning. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Ospreys are a very good side," he stressed, before adding: "They certainly cop a lot of flak, their so-called implosions at times with regard to a game. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He's got the momentum, and he's benefiting by the implosions of the Bachmann, Perry and Cain campaigns. ❋ Andy Ostroy (2011)
The many construction jobs which once flourished during the housing boom have collapsed in one of the nation's most spectacular implosions. ❋ Gary Orfield (2011)
They've moved past distractions and uncertainty with ease —from the Hughes situation, to Jeter's struggles, to the questions about the rotation, to Soriano implosions. ❋ Daniel Barbarisi (2011)
But the biggest reasons the Yankees pitched so poorly were the absence of Mr. Pettitte and the implosions of Mr. Burnett and Javier Vazquez. ❋ Brian Costa (2010)
The candidates also called for the repeal of Mr. Obama's Wall Street regulation law, as well as the Sarbanes-Oxley law on accounting that was approved in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom implosions. ❋ Jonathan Weisman (2011)
•Outlook: The schedule will be more difficult, barring implosions from elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Should be a compelling, fascinating, and illuminating expose on what the hell just happened to our economy, including everything from corporate implosions to taxpayer funded Federal bail-outs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Also undermining the devil theory is a fact hidden between the lines of the subcommittee opus: The events so pejoratively described take place entirely during 2007, before most of the implosions occurred that would have made a big short truly profitable. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)
Following the flurry of bank implosions in 2008 and early 2009, international regulators started working on an overhaul of the global rules governing how much capital and liquidity banks are required to hold. ❋ David Enrich (2011)
