Trading in corn futures was thin in reaction to an abrupt collapse in prices late Wednesday.

Nobody seemed happy about either hostile takeovers or the abrupt collapse of a company employing 17,000 people in Germany.

The abrupt collapse of the Government's 11-month-old program to fight inflation has sent interest rates soaring and brought disarray to the Brazilian economy.

Russia likewise moved in to support the bankrupt center, preventing an abrupt collapse but also chaining the vestigial government to Russian will.

This might help explain the abrupt collapse of elite functions, as well as unfinished buildings and ceremonial centers.

Atlantic cod stocks were severely overexploited in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to their abrupt collapse in 1992.

History offered no precedent for so abrupt a collapse of an empire, virtually under its own weight.

Yet throughout the region, the abrupt collapse of Communist governments has left a sense of unfinished business.

Wall Street's history is littered with abrupt financial collapses, but few have been as fast and furious as the implosion of Refco this week.

Drehkos strode forward, his lips skinned back in a wolfish grin, amused at the abrupt collapse of Myros* bravado.