disaster
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"The disaster we are facing is massive," President Jose Raul Mulino said upon arriving in one of the affected areas.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Haldeman and John Ehrlichman at Camp David in 1973, while 12 years earlier John F. Kennedy received counsel there from Eisenhower after the Bay of Pigs disaster.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
"In view of the current disaster, the law is outdated," says constitutional law expert, Bipin Adhikari.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
It’s just an epic disaster on so many fronts.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
In July 2017, more than six years after the disaster at Fukushima, a tiny robot swam through the unit 3 building.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
It is the latest in a litany of disasters to befall one of the most benighted industrial cities in Europe, repeatedly blanketed in lethal smoke from similar blazes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The accident is one of the deadliest air disasters in Nigeria in recent years.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
It is paying interest to this day: “It is astonishing to think of the wars, revolutions, religious revolt, pandemics and other disasters this bond has survived,” the author marvels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
At the same time, however, companies make multibillion-dollar decisions based not on the possibility of wars or natural disasters, but rather on even demand with a multiyear, and sometimes multidecade, horizon.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
All of them had gone through different climate disasters at the same time last year, and they had each been scarred by them.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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