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...court in years to come. Abraham Lincoln put five men on the court, all chosen to support his policies during the Civil War. All of them did. But after his death, some of them were still serving on the court when a rapidly industrializing nation was caught up in unforeseen battles concerning the rights of labor and the power of states to regulate businesses...
...institution's troubles spread through the system. While that nightmare may be less likely than the first, it is the one that most experts are concerned about. Example: a major U.S. bank that deals in derivatives thinks it has covered all its bets around the world. But an unforeseen event, such as an earthquake in Tokyo or a coup in Latin America, sends markets crashing in some area. The bank's finely tuned hedging strategy is thrown off balance, and it has no choice but to default on its contracts. A whole chain of interlocking obligations snaps, setting...
...Aviad, the beautiful soldier who had penetrated her dreams even before he arrived. But it was not because she lost him that she fled from the kibbutz. As revealed through a surprising collection of letters in the third segment of the book she falls in love with another unforeseen person at the kibbutz. This other dangerous relationship on the border destroyed the old Chernin...
...free" conjecture? The CVS crusader might discount the happiness of lab bunnies when she gets a speck of Jim's-All-Natural-Cruelty-Free-Third-World-Friendl y-Gentle-Tooth-Cleaner in her eye and writhes in pain as the substance eats away at her cornea via some reaction unforeseen by the bunny-friendly safety testers who formulated...
Despite 400 hours of training in NASA's space-simulating water tanks and plenty of spacewalking experience, the astronauts realize that the tiniest unforeseen problem could turn their effort into a disaster. A stripped bolt, a slightly misaligned part, a slip on the part of the fix-it crew could disable the telescope completely, leaving NASA and the scientists who depend on the Hubble worse off than before...