disaster
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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
The BBC visited Lawat's village Betrawati just days after the disaster, once the roads to the district of Rasuwa had been cleared.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Nepal floods would also put "a huge amount of pressure" on western countries to increase financial support for climate disaster recovery, said Ajay Mathur, a former Indian government negotiator.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
It’s just an epic disaster on so many fronts.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Mom will be back any second, and if we don’t know anything about Hurricane Floyd, she’s going to make us recite every international election and natural disaster from memory.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
The accident is one of the deadliest air disasters in Nigeria in recent years.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Campbell founded the charity in 2005, aiming to harness the fashion industry to relieve poverty and advance health and education, by making grants to other organisations and giving resources towards global disasters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 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
During emergencies, those facilities are converted into places of refuge from fires, floods or other disasters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
It’s not as if we can go somewhere else; the disasters on the moon and Mars colonies proved that.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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