Still, preventing such a catastrophe in the future will require further study and deeper reform.

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That scenario will make near-term paralysis a certainty and future economic catastrophe a distinct possibility.

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Let's not lay the groundwork for future financial catastrophe.

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The alarming news of the present, raised to a level of continual urgency, has taught us to think of the future in terms of continual catastrophe.

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