Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As emergency crews fortified sandbag barriers and shoveled away muck in flood-stricken California, President Clinton appeared live on TV to assure victims that federal help was on the way. At least six deaths have been blamed on storms along the West Coast. By last night, Clinton had certified 24...
The NASA finding gives little comfort to those who still believe that volcanism alone did in the dinosaurs. But they are encouraged by a novel "double-whammy" theory suggesting that an impact on one side of the earth could produce massive volcanic activity at the antipode -- a point directly opposite...
In a move that TIME correspondents say surprised everyone in its timing, CIA Director James Woolsey -- long criticized for his handling of the Aldrich Ames spy case -- resigned today. Woolsey said his "family figures prominently" in the decision to quit. President Clinton said he accepted the resignation "with regret." Woolsey...
A 2 million-bbl. oil spill would be bad anywhere, but the pipeline leak in the Russian Arctic in October was especially unfortunate. The harsh weather makes it hard for wildlife to survive in any case, and sluggish cleanup efforts virtually guaranteed an ecological disaster. Worse yet, there is a...
Madonna. The Material Girl, rapidly running out of material, tried pouty intransigence and four-letter words on David Letterman's Late Show, an appearance that proved you can turn your head away from a train wreck. By the end of her bleepathon, even the studio audience was hooting her off...