Word: storm
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...anything, the storm reinforced the popular belief that hurricanes are so thoroughly tracked, probed and forecast these days that they cannot possibly cause great loss of life. Scientists don't share that optimism, however. Many believe we're entering a cycle in which violent storms are going to be more frequent, and in which the likelihood of a disastrous strike will be greater than ever. The scientists' pet nightmare is of the Big One--a catastrophic storm that could do $100 billion dollars' worth of damage and kill thousands of people. No one knows when or where...
Even a Little One like Bonnie, of course, can do plenty of harm. Some half a million people were forced to flee inland last week, as the 400-mile-wide storm--mammoth in size even by hurricane standards--swirled toward Cape Fear, N.C. And though Bonnie's 115-m.p.h. winds slowed rapidly as she lumbered inland, her forward progress slowed too, with the result that the storm hovered over the state and pummeled it for more than a day. Downed power lines robbed over 240,000 people of electricity. Even worse than the winds were the rains--more than...
...scooted off to the White House around 10:30, entering through the side door. He met Hillary on the second floor. She was dressed casually, in some sort of warm-up suit, and she and Jackson and Chelsea embraced. "We began to talk about one's faith and the storm," Jackson says. When Clinton came in, they greeted each other and chatted, but the President went into the third-floor solarium for a meeting with Harry Thomason, Clinton's old Arkansas friend, making it clear he wanted Jackson to spend time in the family quarters with Chelsea...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Fortune Investor Data All in all, a poor performance from the markets closest to the eye of the storm. But it's a picnic compared to the continuing collapse in Asia. The Nikkei sank to a 12-year low. Hong Kong, which had seemed immune on Thursday, plummeted on news that it had joined Japan in the recession club. The former colony's economy shrank a whopping 5 percent in the second quarter, virtually wiping out all of 1997's gains in one go; officials had originally predicted 3.5 percent growth. "This is outside...
...quotation "I know that there is a God, and I see a storm coming. If he has a place for me, I am ready," which you ascribed to John F. Kennedy [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 3], actually comes from J.G. Holland's Life of Lincoln, published in 1866. Holland claimed that Lincoln, expressing his determination to resist the spread of slavery, told an Illinois educator in the spring of 1860, "I know there is a God, and...I see the storm coming...If he has a place and work for me...I am ready." But William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner...