Word: unforeseen
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...venerable financial institutions teetered or collapsed, several of Iraq's 18 provinces, including Diyala in the northeast, suffered their own cash crunch, literally running out of cash. Bank notes. Bills. Some public-sector bank branches, mainly in Diyala, ran out of physical bank notes because of a combination of unforeseen demand and a lapse in importing new currency notes from printers based overseas. It is the latest inefficiency to stymie the country's long-delayed reconstruction efforts...
...unforeseen circumstances sent him into the family business...
...cautiousness about their uses. Time and again his novels feature overeager scientific researchers, greedy for cash and knowledge, who evade regulation and supervision to open one Pandora's Box after another, always with fatal consequences. In his world-view the raw chaos and complexity of nature always lead to unforeseen consequences. "Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise," Crichton wrote in Travels, "a method for taking measurements that describe something - reality - that may not be understood...
...there were some unforeseen obstacles: Tsim arrived at the fabric store just as it was closing. “I had to beg them to stay open for five more minutes,” Tsim says. The judges spot a rogue safety pin at the model’s waist...
...words helpful in considering future developments for his own start-up, which he is working on with David A. Kosslyn ’11, co-president of the student group that sponsored the talk. “The hardest thing once you get started is adapting to unforeseen circumstances,” said Ramaswamy, who is also a Crimson editorial writer. “We change our direction every two days.” Their project is still in the process of recruiting users. Christina J. Kelly ’09 was another attendee who had already accrued some entrepreneurial...