Precollapse

You need vigorous exercise to help you balance the energy mobilized by your precollapse stress response. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2010)

The exterior of the car was decorated with much precollapse graffiti. ❋ J.L. Bourne (2010)

For 24 hours, I'll be in character as a xenoarchaeologist, trying to make sense of precollapse Earth ... with the help of over 50 artists who donated "artifacts" to this project, including a few SF/F authors themselves. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's vulture investing that doesn't thrill developers who are still trying to hold on to delusional precollapse prices, but it's part of the clearing process. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The ASB pegs inflation-adjusted price increases at 46.2% during the last two years, placing corn prices at the highest levels on record in the last 15 years and above precollapse highs by roughly 3.3%.

While Peabody's offer represents a 34% premium to the price at which Macarthur was prepared to issue shares to global commodity trader Noble Group (under a separate pending deal involving fellow Australian miner Gloucester Coal), POSCO's $400 million cost for a 10% stake back in 2008 serves as a timely reminder of how far these coal asset valuations have fallen from that precollapse peak. ❋ Christopher Barker (2010)