Word: bursting
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After a decade of excess, the bubble burst. Stocks tumbled in a flurry of panic, as financial institutions collapsed. Amid the turmoil, as the endowment’s prospects worsened, Harvard’s plans for expansion fell into doubt...
What if you burst into tears? I think that's completely normal and natural. I think if you're dealing with a humane terminating manager and a humane HR person, their hearts are breaking too. It's just painful all around...
...that a slowing economy has burst the hiring bubble in financial services, OCS is making a greater effort to help students find careers in other areas. They’ve organized 15 “cluster areas,” ranging from human rights to sports management...
Business cycles can be capricious, as officials for Tata Motors are discovering. During India's economic boom, the country's largest automobile manufacturer burst onto the international stage by acquiring fabled British luxury marques Jaguar and Land Rover for $2.3 billion. The company grabbed more attention last year when it unveiled the Nano, a potentially revolutionary sedan designed for emerging markets with a pricetag less than some laptop computers. Tata Motors, it seemed, was a carmaker in high gear...
...assault began at about 11 p.m. local time, when two light aircraft burst into Colombo. One bomb hit the Inland Revenue Department, but the real target may have been the Sri Lankan Air Force building, which is directly behind it. The government of Sri Lanka says that 27 people were injured and two people died; other sources reported that has many as 40 people were injured. Both planes were shot down, one of them crashing down next to Colombo's international airport, according to the Sri Lankan government...