Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forbes, who was working for the Civil DefenseAgency in the early sixties, recalls with pridethe quality of Massachusetts fallout shelters."The shelters were stocked with biscuits andcarbohydrate supplements, which were hardcandies," explains Forbes. "There were tons andtons of supplies in these shelters. In someselected shelters, there were 200 beds andpackaged...
The Leeson caper gives capitalism a bad name. It is obscene that a single person can make and lose billions trading in derivatives and futures, an activity with absolutely no redeeming social or productive value whatsoever, while millions of people starve for want of a daily bowl of rice. I...
LAST MONDAY A COUNTRY THAT HAD been convulsed just two months earlier by a natural disaster, the devastating Kobe earthquake, was assailed by the most synthetic of catastrophes: a poison created by man, and a madness that was strictly human. In what could only have been a carefully coordinated, painstakingly...
This is not to say that the book should have had a graphic depiction of the assault on Reginald Denny (or Rodney King). On the contrary. I challenge the premise that we must deal with inflammatory events in books for little children. But if we are going to anyway, we...
"All of us look at national trauma or disaster they way a plastic surgeon looks at Crow's Feet--you know it's too bad, but we've got to make a living," said Marlette.