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It’s still unclear whether this storm will be naughty — with torrential downpours intense enough to cause flooding and mud or debris flows or nice, with gentle rainfall spread out beneficially over a period of days.
From Los Angeles Times
A colder storm could cause snow to accumulate on the Grapevine section of the 5 Freeway — as well as the Tehachapi Pass, which connects Bakersfield to the Mojave Desert.
From Los Angeles Times
But researchers did not consider AI's potential to cause unemployment in the short-term by displacing human workers.
From BBC
“There is plenty of oil on the global market, and a shut-in of Venezuelan production, however unlikely, is not going to cause a supply shortage anytime soon,” Mizuho’s Robert Yawger says in a note.
At the time, a controlled fusion reaction produced more energy than it consumed by using lasers to create conditions that cause hydrogen atoms to fuse and release vast amounts of energy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
