Word: disasterous
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It was the country's worst earthquake in more than 70 years. The jolt that hit Kobe (pop. 1.5 million) just before dawn on Tuesday measured 7.2 on the Richter scale. The numbers alone told the chilling story: some 5,000 confirmed dead, 200 still missing, 25,000 injured, 300...
A disaster on the scale of the Japan earthquake is a human tragedy, but for journalists it also becomes a mundane problem of logistics. When the first reports came in from Kobe last Tuesday, Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond dispatched reporter Irene Kunii to the scene. As the death toll...
China officially abandoned its bid for the huge Asian satellite TV market today when a rocket carrying a TV satellite blew up 65 seconds after lift-off. The destroyed U.S.-made satellite, which would have provided television, telephone and digital telecommunications for Asia and parts of eastern Europe, northern Africa...
Facing unremitting criticism for its half-speed response to theKobe disaster, the Japanese government stepped up its relief efforts for quake victims by declaring the city a disaster area. This means the government will now shoulder 90 percent of the estimated $58 billion cost of rebuilding the city. In addition...
Russian Defense Minister probable casualty of Chechnya disaster