21.   City officials condemned a brick strip shopping center that they feared could collapse after half a brick wall collapsed and the roof was weakened.

22.   Cosmo, the most recent of the failures, collapse after a run by customers last month that drained one-third of its deposits within a week.

23.   Covad Communications, which saw its stock value collapse after a couple of years as a virtual poster child for a national high-speed strategy.

24.   David J. Askin, whose investment fund collapsed after bond prices plummeted last year, Tuesday settled Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he had misled investors.

25.   Dozens of bodies were thought to be still inside the Ufundi Cooperative House, a five-story building that collapsed after the midmorning bomb blast.

26.   During that chase, the sixth gunman, who collapsed after being wounded, was killed by his companions, apparently to prevent his capture, Egyptian investigators said.

27.   Earlier this week, the parties that came in first and third said efforts to rebuild their longtime ruling coalition had collapsed after three months of talks.

28.   Employee Solutions Inc. shares collapsed after the worker management company delayed reporting its fourth-quarter results and told investors profits will fall below expectations.

29.   Enron collapsed after reporting strong profits for years, a fact that might be seen as proof that the profits were illusory.

30.   European farmers also feared prices would collapse after a surge in imports.