Melt Down

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"That means there has been a partial melt-down," said nuclear engineer Charles Ferguson, president of the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C. ❋ Gautam Naik (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the next week, God forbid, there may be a full melt-down of one or more of the damaged plants, rendering large areas of Japan and possibly Korea, depending on wind currents as uninhabitable as the Chernobyl melt-down rendered parts of Ukraine, while increasing the rate of cancer deaths in a larger swathe of Europe. ❋ Rabbi Arthur Waskow (2011)

Two reactors experiencing potential melt-down problems and no word on if the efforts to cool the reactors is working. ❋ David Wagner (2011)

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 (2010)

There is a strong risk of a financial melt-down in the world's most indebted nation. ❋ Lawrence G. McDonald (2011)

Tokyo Electric Power Company will suffer losses of over $100 billion from its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melt-down and most of Japan's northern corporate facilities that hug the eastern coastline have been destroyed or incapacitated. ❋ Lawrence G. McDonald (2011)

The earthquake, tsunami and impending threat of melt-down at nuclear plants have catapulted Japan to the top of prophecy web sites. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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 … …. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)