Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s prompted Congress to enact protections for afflicted farmers. Ironically, some safeguards began being phased out this year, as the 1996 drought was building. The new Freedom to Farm Act represents an attempt to wean farmers from price supports and occasional expensive supplemental federal disaster...
Hanging from his belt is a black two-by-three inch beeper given to him by the Red Cross. Apparently, when Kedlaya isn't tackling the latest math problem, he's driving an ambulance-like vehicle around Boston, helping disaster victims with housing, food, and first aid. As director of...
It's also worth pointing out that 1996JA1 is hardly unique. Neighboring space teems with many more so-called Near Earth Objects, asteroids and comets with orbits that pass close to Earth's path around the sun. More than 100 NEOS big enough to cause the kind of worldwide disaster...
It won't escape the notice of a modern reader that this overabundance of plot is appropriate to a Victorian novel, not merely to a tale set in Victorian times. So is the central puzzle, which involves not only the story of the naive young cleric but also the distinctly...
Every time a commercial airliner meets up with disaster, the flying public is forced to confront dangers it never even knew existed--remember microbursts and wind shear?--and the airlines scramble to alter policies, upgrade technology or retrain their pilots. In the case of the May 11 crash of ValuJet...