natural disaster
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Some of these nongovernmental organizations have provided advanced training programs to thousands of people around Taiwan; others are small, neighborhood clubs that meet regularly for wargames or survival training, spurred in part by the threat of natural disaster.
While Taiwan’s president has urged everyone to be prepared, supporters of his Democratic Progressive Party are more likely to listen—even in packing go-bags for a natural disaster, according to a survey codesigned by Austin Horng-En Wang, a political-science professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
And like a natural disaster, what emerged about Chavez was far worse than anyone could’ve expected.
From Los Angeles Times
It is granted to people deemed to be in danger if they return to their home countries because of war, natural disaster or other extraordinary circumstances.
From Barron's
In 1990, Congress authorized giving temporary shelter to non-citizens from countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disaster or “extraordinary and temporary conditions” that prevent them from returning there.
From Los Angeles Times
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