Bankruptcy (n.) is the last of the means by which a crisis settles a whole series of claims.
Bankruptcy (n.) is often what lets large enterprises thrive: the first owners go under, and the second start with cheapened plant.
Bankruptcy (n.) is the practical critic that would refute a bank which believed every commodity is directly money.
Bankruptcy (n.) law (n.) rewritten with the industry's help treats reckless lending as the borrower's problem.
A Breakdown (n.) comes in two forms: either one no longer knows what one wants and nothing interests, or one wants too much at once, all of it impossible.
A Breakdown (n.) can be the one true thing — "everything about me is a lie; but that I am breaking down — this breaking down is genuine!"
A Breakdown (n.) is scheduled for the week after the warranty ends.
A Breakdown (n.) is when everyone who depended on it finally finds out they were depending on it.
A Broken promise (n.) turns the last journey into a debtor's flight, and the justice watching over existence cannot be evaded.
A Broken promise (n.) is like a chair somebody quietly sawed through, discovered by sitting down.
A Broken promise (n.) teaches both of them what the word was actually worth.
A Broken promise (n.) is remembered by exactly one of the two people who were there.
Choking (sport) (n.) happens to the person who has done it ten thousand times and never to the person doing it for the first.
Choking (sport) (n.) is the body voting no after the mind already said yes.
Choking (sport) (n.) is the body remembering that it is being watched.
Choking (sport) (n.) is paralysis by analysis.