1.   And an extended payments schedule might well recover the debt more surely than strict enforcement - which might instead precipitate financial collapse.

2.   None is big enough or bold enough to offset the negative effects of the financial collapse.

3.   An outright financial collapse with many banks going belly-up is unlikely, if only because of the lengths to which the government will go to prevent it.

4.   And shortly after the airport opened property values plummeted, pushing nearby Canary Wharf into financial collapse.

5.   Argentina took an important symbolic step on Monday in its struggle to avoid financial collapse.

6.   At one point, he admonished, there must come the day of reckoning, as New York City soon learned when it came near financial collapse.

7.   Before its abrupt financial collapse amid an accounting scandal last fall, Enron had close ties to the Bush administration.

8.   Brazil is at risk of a Mexico-style financial collapse, a former adviser to U.S. President Bill Clinton has warned.

9.   Brazil risks a Mexico-style financial collapse and should weaken its currency to head off a crisis, a former adviser to U.S. President Bill Clinton warned.

10.   Brazilian stocks fell after economist Rudiger Dornbusch, a former adviser to U.S. President Bill Clinton, warned that Brazil was at risk of financial collapse.