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That’s probably good short-term news for investors, since falling profit margins would precipitate a severe bear market.

The outcome precipitated Vermeil’s departure for the Philadelphia Eagles and marked Buckeyes coach Woody Hayes’ final appearance in the Rose Bowl.

The full story of what exactly precipitated the downfall of the BBC's director general and his CEO of News is probably still emerging.

Inside of three years, credit default swaps on subprime mortgage bonds would become a trillion-dollar market and precipitate hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of losses inside big Wall Street firms.

It was the precipitating factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980s as nations in Eastern Europe began to liberate themselves from the communist yoke.