meltdown
મેલ્ટડાઉન
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the 1987 stock market meltdown
a disastrous event, especially a rapid fall in share prices.
I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial meltdown of the reactor core.
an accident in a nuclear reactor in which the fuel overheats and melts the reactor core or shielding.
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Like a 'meltdown' in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it.
the story will revolve around her 'meltdown' following the accident
Somewhere along the way, a pipe bursts in the reactor core and 'meltdown' begins.
In May 1967 radioactivity was released into the environment when fuel caught fire in a reactor and suffered a partial 'meltdown' .
They show you presentations of how top military bases were hacked and nuclear installations almost brought to 'meltdown' .
I can't walk into a nuclear power plant and start fiddling with knobs and dials, without causing a nuclear 'meltdown' .
Will any of the business models that emerged over the past five years survive the 'meltdown' on Wall Street?
the 1987 stock market 'meltdown'
Some nuclear critics had asserted that a core 'meltdown' would inevitably breach containment.
It's been a long time since I've had a major 'meltdown' , and this time it was just about a puppy.
But he was saved from a total electoral 'meltdown' by only a handful of votes.
Only the most brilliant of chief executives can move the share price and even here the evidence in the face of the dotcom 'meltdown' is scant.
they wondered what could have triggered her 'meltdown'
The last thing a small business needs is a computer 'meltdown' just when it's time to run off the monthly accounts.
First there was the Nasdaq 'meltdown' and the devastation of the dotcoms and the idea of the casual workplace.
That's why Yu's comments triggered such angst among those who see the makings of a dollar 'meltdown' .
Lipsio said he took little comfort in knowing that the 'meltdown' at the Palm Beach elections office happened during a trial to help spot such problems.
Even as a result of the only major 'meltdown' , at Three Mile Island in the United States a quarter of a century ago, no lives were lost.
The patient also learns how to cope with unavoidable stress without having a 'meltdown' .
I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial 'meltdown' of the reactor core.
All three sell products to a wide range of markets, which helps protect them from a 'meltdown' in any one sector.
A year ago one of the company's nuclear plants came dangerously close to a core 'meltdown' .
Fearing a 'meltdown' , the reactor officer shuts down the submarine's main source of power.
We asked them to offer practical lessons that they learned from the 'meltdown' .
the global financial system suffered a major 'meltdown'
Go and try out the Nuclear Power Plant Simulator and see how many 'meltdowns' you cause before you manage to survive an entire shift.
Over the years, Congress has created one program after another to insure individuals and businesses against a panoply of hazards, from natural disasters to bank failures to nuclear reactor 'meltdowns' .
Ohio State's win over Washington State and Penn State's over Nebraska were overshadowed by, among other results, 'meltdowns' by Michigan State against Cal and Iowa against Iowa State.
As a result, sudden 'meltdowns' - such as the Asian financial crisis - can turn flourishing countries into basket cases overnight.
I'd be the last to whinge about tight deadlines, technology 'meltdowns' , the stress, the strain, the always urgent need to come up with an alternative expression for ‘and the wall did its job.’
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