catastrophe
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On top of that, insurers have already come into storm season following a period of lighter catastrophe losses relative to recent trends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
One appealing feature of many of these bonds at the moment is that as interest rates rise they can pay higher yields on investors’ cash held as collateral against catastrophe risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
“Those are scenarios of varying levels of catastrophe, and that’s kind of how I’ve been seeing speculative fiction lately.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
An incinerator scheme to help clean up the ecological catastrophe turned out to be a vast multi-million-dollar scam that included a "ghost" incinerator for the capital Tirana that was never built.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or even strange.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Now, a long-awaited independent investigation commissioned by Gov. Gavin Newsom provides the most frank and in-depth review of the Jan. 7, 2025 catastrophes, and points out multiple shortcomings in governmental planning and response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
There is still plenty of Dickensian melodrama, especially when Livia relates the sequence of catastrophes that account for her transformation from a virtuoso with dreams of stardom to a small-town piano teacher and farmer’s wife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
He also called for "speedy incident reporting, classification, and reporting protocols so the world can learn from failures before they become catastrophes".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Will his crew see this grandiose conspiracy through, despite their shifty partners and some last-minute catastrophes?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Shocked by the toll in human life, critics have been quick to suggest policies and procedures to ensure that the catastrophes of this season won’t be repeated.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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