Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the days after the disaster, the man known as A.P. broke ranks with his fellow bankers, many of whom wanted area banks to remain shut to sort out the damage. Giannini quickly set up shop on the docks near San Francisco's North Beach. With a wooden plank straddling...
That's when the process began by which the fairy tale turned into a very bad dream. Just four years later, in 1994, Seaboard phased out the plant and moved its hog-slaughtering operations to another town 800 miles away, which came up with an even larger corporate-welfare package...
$16,895,210 Total assistance provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, for Hurricane Mitch as of Nov. 18
Sources: AP, U.S. Agency for Int'l. Dev./Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Public Agenda
One thing you couldn't miss, however, was her continuous attack on postmodernism and its purveyors in Ivy League humanities departments. Her repeated stressing of this "disaster" conveyed the sense that postmodernism is a palpable evil, one which will bite your arm or steal your soul if you are not...