The company was in a state of virtual collapse.

More broadly, some see the virtual economic collapse in North Korea as creating new hopes for change.

And government officials began finger-pointing over the virtual collapse of their case.

Foreign trade concentrated on hard-currency countries after the virtual collapse of the Soviet market.

He was hurt as well by the virtual collapse in local elections of his smaller partner, the Free Democrats.

"One of the biggest problems was the virtual collapse of the retail channel, especially for consumer products," he said.

This was misleading because the economy had been in a virtual collapse in 1975, making it an unrealistic basis for comparison.

At the same time, officials began rounds of finger-pointing for the virtual collapse of the government's case.

The free market system has become distorted to the point of virtual collapse.

She invested substantial personal capital in the talks last month, only to see them end in virtual collapse.