21.   The claim would indicate the virtual collapse of Taliban control in northern Afghanistan.

22.   The World Health Organization expressed alarm last year over what it called a virtual collapse of the health system in Iraq.

23.   The virtual collapse is expected to take number of financial service and data-processing jobs along with it.

24.   The World Health Organization expressed alarm Thursday over what it said was a virtual collapse of the health system in Iraq.

25.   The World Health Organization expressed alarm Thursday over what it called a virtual collapse of the health system in Iraq, a situation aggravated by continuing U.N. sanctions.

26.   French deputies on Thursday summoned a senior official from troubled French bank Credit Lyonnais for questioning over possible mismanagement which led to its virtual collapse.

27.   The country had gone through huge turmoil with a breakdown in law and order and a virtual collapse of the economy.