1.   But over the years, as the studio system crumbled and the apparatus of moviemaking grew larger, opening credits became more crowded.

2.   Even the old star system is crumbling under the pressures of the Event Movie.

3.   Many airlines immediately followed, but others did not, and the new system crumbled.

4.   Somehow women thought that as they proved themselves and moved up in large numbers, the old value systems would crumble.

5.   South Africa is not the only place where a seemingly impregnable political system has crumbled in recent years.

6.   The caste system is now crumbling.

7.   Then, logic says, the old system will crumble.

8.   Without public trust, the legal system crumbles.

9.   But there were signs the old system already is crumbling.

10.   If banks are forced to back down just to bail out a few individuals and groups, then the banking system will crumble.