11.   Barring a total collapse by their teams, all five will play in the NCAA tournament.

12.   Both sides seemed to feel the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements have reached an irreversible crisis, teetering between total collapse and a return to the cycle of violence.

13.   A United Nations peacekeeping force or transitional authority may be needed to head off total societal collapse.

14.   Brown believes the idea behind this is that if humans can evolve faster, we may still be able to divert a forthcoming total ecological collapse on Earth.

15.   But even if a total collapse of consumer confidence seems improbable in America any time soon, it is increasingly viewed by mainstream economists as a real possibility.

16.   But it was a total collapse by the Knicks.

17.   But the situation in Ecuador, where the government has been headed toward a total collapse, may be even more acute.

18.   But there has been a decade of nearly total industrial collapse.

19.   Colombians had been bracing for the total collapse of shaky peace negotiations started by the guerrillas and President Andres Pastrana three years ago.

20.   Esiason is the only link between these Jets and total collapse, of surrendering all hope of winning games no one will give them credit for.