Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A general calls out a command. At his side, a "display specialist" punches one button, then another; his fingers race across his varicolored panel filled with the flashing lights of disaster (see oppo site page). An outline map of the North American continent is traced in light across a large...
The question remains: Will philosophy ever again address the heavens? Will it contribute anything to man's vision, rather than merely clarifying it? Caution and confusion are not necessarily signs of disaster, and even Hegel remarked that "the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of...
Then, last week, disaster struck. As the 32-man crew was lowering Sea Gem so that it could be towed to a new site, two of its ten legs suddenly collapsed and the platform sank, leaving five men dead and eight others missing. With it, Britain's hopes for...
Truth & Consequences. Keynes was born the year Marx died (1883) and died in the first full year of capitalism's lengthy postwar boom (1946). The son of a noted Cambridge political economist, he whizzed through Eton and Cambridge, then entered the civil service. He got his lowest mark in economics...
Zurich's Swiss Reinsurance Co. has more reason than most to rue the vintage year of disaster. It is the world's biggest reinsurance company. "Swiss Re," as its name suggests, insures the insurance companies-more than 1,000 of them are its clients-by accepting part of...