11.   Change can come swiftly and with devastating results, particularly if a warming trend causes the collapse of a major ice sheet and raises the global sea level.

12.   Critics say this would cause the collapse of urban public schools, but Gallagher says competition will save them.

13.   Enormous losses in Singapore caused the collapse of Barings.

14.   Forty years ago, after lampreys and overfishing caused the collapse of the predator lake trout, the population of another invader, the herringlike alewives, surged.

15.   He cited huge losses that harmed Daiwa Bank in Japan and caused the collapse of Barings Plc in London.

16.   He managed a Cambridge education despite the creeping disease, but drink caused the collapse of his youthful first marriage, after which he was never sound emotionally.

17.   He said, however, that he is convinced that there is an continuing investigation of the events that had caused the collapse of Hanover Sterling.

18.   If they become worse, they could cause the collapse of the state -- and with it the market.

19.   Initially, Duhalde gave the impression he would end the perks afforded to the government elite which dragged down the country and had caused the collapse of its institutions.

20.   Investigators picking through the wreckage of Enron Corp., seeking to understand what caused its collapse in December, have explored its byzantine partnerships and financial strategies.