Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even though three years have passed since crude oil began gushing from a ruptured well under the Santa Barbara Channel, no one yet knows the exact costs of the disaster. As so often happens with social problems in the U.S., the courts have to put a price tag on values...
Economou's assignments have proved equally nagging. Despite Casey's elaborate manual of instructions, she says, "Every detail of a trip is a potential disaster." Ten minutes before Muskie was scheduled to speak in Manchester, N.H., the sound equipment went on the blink. Economou managed to scrounge up...
The Club of Rome is not alone in its concern. Last week Britain's Ecologist magazine devoted 22 pages to a "Blueprint for Survival" that also projects disaster and argues for quick action to end exponential growth. The article gains its authority not from computer studies but from the...
At this point, the film moves from left to right, as domestic sentiment takes over from hifalutin political ideas. Later episodes take Chaplin and his girlfriend into a department store at night, where the tramp blithely roller-skates blind-folded. On the brink of disaster, he is blissfully unaware of...
2. and if success means disaster.