Word: disasterous
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Back in the '70s, when Morocco was to the counterculture what France was to the Lost Generation of the 1920s--a place to find your bliss on an agreeable currency-exchange rate--Julia has dragged her kids from chilly London to sunny Marrakech, where she vaguely hopes to achieve spiritual...
While the early doomsday predictions about Y2K appear to be wildly exaggerated, serious work remains to be done. "It was only one chemical valve being left open that caused the Bhopal disaster," says Joan Mulhern, legislative counsel for Public Citizen. "To the extent that these bills are telling industry not...
In Pristina, the Kosovo capital, black-masked Serb police dragged Albanians out of their homes, force-marched them to a railroad station and packed thousands into locked trains bound for Macedonia. Says a senior State Department official: "The numbers are staggering. We have a huge humanitarian disaster on our hands...
Post calls the possibility of talks dragging onfor another a year a "disaster."
Faced with a humanitarian disaster in Europe on a scale not seen since the end of World War II, the U.S. said on Tuesday that it would accept and house its share of ethnic Albanian refugees at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military base in Cuba. After obtaining assurances from each...