Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are the worst winter storms to hit California in a decade, or 500 years or 1,000, depending upon which expert is quoted. Los Angeles, used to downpours of no more than three-quarters of an inch this time of year, was drenched with 8 in. before clouds let...
Indeed, on television, for every image of a boat navigating a West Coast street or a floating bathtub full of paddling victims, there was that familiar combative California aplomb, survivors telling interviewers the good still far outweighed the bad. A father of two young boys, asked flatly why he and...
If the slogging cleanup required a degree of indomitability, so did reading the headlines in California on Friday. Seismologists have determined that an earthquake even bigger than last year's is simply a part of Los Angeles' destiny, according to stories based on a report in the journal Science. No...
By one estimate, Californians have suffered $32 billion in disaster damages just since 1989. Even in an off year like 1991 -- the Oakland fire storm, a deep freeze, a drought -- the catastrophe tab came to $3 billion. Enter this, the first setback of 1995, into the ledger then, and it...
But Chechnya is far worse than a dip in the Russian road to democracy, and the Administration is well aware of it. The war is a colossal blunder. The Russians managed to lurch out of two years of dithering, during which they ignored the republic's secession, into a sudden...