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
About 4.6 million people felt moderate to severe shaking as a result of the quake, according to the US Geological Survey, which has said that the effects of the disaster were "likely to be widespread".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The disaster paradoxically spurred an economic boom in the fast-growing city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
To people all around the world, the name has come to mean one thing: nuclear disaster.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Many think of corporate naming in the context of disasters like Tronc, the notoriously short-lived rebrand of media conglomerate Tribune Publishing, or Reebok’s Incubus, a shoe named for a mythological demon that attacks sleeping women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The accident is one of the deadliest air disasters in Nigeria in recent years.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
It is one the worst air disasters in recent years in Africa's most populous country.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 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
Chase and his father always got a big kick out of watching television reporters during disasters.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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