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The opening shot is of a desolate post-apocalyptic world with what were once our cities but are now crumbling ruins, a lawless world where acid rain falls from the sky & the strong prey on the weak.
The world's economy was crumbling under the impact of the oil shock, Richard Nixon's head was on the block and wars were raging in Vietnam, Ulster, Cyprus and Cambodia.
Karloff tends to take the stage most of the time with a quiet, but riveting performance as a Greek general slowly crumbling into madness.
On a positive note the scenes in Shekkar's palace and especially his dungeon are very atmospheric and look the part with their flickering flame torches and crumbling stonework walls.
There are very few games out there that can come close to this one is sheer grandeur, and I have found none that equal the sense of pure loneliness and isolation in a land of crumbling splendor.
A British ganglord (Bob Hoskins) finds his empire crumbling after 10 years of peace...and just as he's about to make a very lucarative deal with the U.S. Mafia.
Co-scripted by Dylan Thomas, this tale of three ageing and infirm, although philanthropically inclined, spinster sisters presiding over a crumbling mansion in 1930s South Wales is an oddball post-War slice of Welsh Gothic.
It's not just the old dark house that creaks here; even a nick of time climax does little to shore up the cracks of this crumbling edifice.
Sure it is somewhat sad to see one of the most beloved bands of all time crumbling apart, not to mention making all of them look like the egotistical rock stars they all were.
Unsustainable fiscal deficits, questionable trade policy, a high level of inequality, crumbling infrastructure, underperforming schools, and unaffordable health care are the result of domestic choices.
Even cooperation on climate change is crumbling, with the US and China rejecting the multilateral, top-down approach to policymaking.
Unfortunately, the existing arms-control and disarmament regimes are crumbling.
Consider this: America’s roads and bridges are crumbling, and the national transportation infrastructure requires investment and maintenance.
In the aftermath of the great recession, there are many ways in which these economies could put additional public spending to good use: to increase demand and employment, restore crumbling infrastructure, and boost research and development, particularly in green technologies.
It was the crumbling Kuomintang that in 1947 drew and promulgated the original “11-dash line” map – subsequently reduced to nine dashes by Mao Zedong, in a fraternal gesture to Vietnam – in a futile effort to rally the population to its side via imperial ambition.
To create a Palestinian state when existing Arab states are crumbling – and with a part of Palestine controlled by Hamas – does not seem like a brilliant idea.
But, while disagreement on these issues has undoubtedly weakened US-Russian ties, the real reason that the bilateral relationship has been crumbling is more fundamental.
Business has been booming in this respect lately, with The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and many less exalted journals full of claims that the global order is crumbling, America’s ability (and willingness) to save it is in terminal decline, and the prospect of avoiding major conflict in the decade ahead is illusory.
Exposés about poorly built buildings and crumbling bridges are offered as evidence that thrift has overtaken reason.
Otherwise, the country’s crumbling infrastructure will drag down economic growth for years to come.
A large-scale program to reboot America’s crumbling infrastructure would go a long way toward addressing this gap between assets and liabilities, providing pension funds with investments with long time horizons (and thus guaranteeing the incomes of tomorrow’s retirees) while leveraging private capital for the public good.
The underpinnings of the rules-based world order are crumbling, and basic norms of international behavior and decency are in decay.
The combination of a young population and a crumbling economy is a combustible mix, one that amounts to an existential threat to the regime – and the regime knows it.
A global economic order sitting atop a crumbling foundation – in terms of democratic support and national political and social cohesion – is not stable.
But with the EU already crumbling, Brexit could turn that dynamic on its head.
Long-standing value systems are weakening, and once-solid societal foundations are crumbling.
Africa does indeed present a gloomy picture, with countries virtually crumbling to dust as a result of autocracy and stagnation.
By contrast, the problems faced today – high energy and food prices and a crumbling financial system – have, to a large extent, been brought about by bad policies.
Infrastructure is crumbling.
Moreover, other support networks – including income opportunities in tourism, the informal sector, and charitable and family support – are crumbling under the pressure of growing poverty.
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