Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In fact, the foreign reaction is more appropriate. What is happening in Russia is a disaster, a frightening one that threatens the world with prolonged instability at best, and the rise of an increasingly isolated and hostile state--armed with about 22,000 nuclear warheads--at worst. The Western countries...
In all cases, what boosted those early storms to Top-10 status was population growth. In 1995, for example, Pielke says, the population of two Florida counties alone, Dade and Broward, was greater than the 1930 population of the entire coast from Texas through Virginia. Like compulsive gamblers betting the...
In the past few weeks, there have been a thousand sound bites from self-righteous men in button-down shirts advising some variation on "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." This is an impossible standard. No one knows the whole truth. (Omniscience is not a human...
When he was caught, he put all his chips on the same kind of artfully worded, misleading denials that had snatched him from the brink of disaster before. And for seven months he put his family, his friends, his staff and his supporters through hell.
BILL CLINTON The master of disaster finally lost his touch. Failing to be either sympathetic or apologetic, he didn't come close to matching the Hugh Grant speech. Nice tie.