The higher end could lead to the catastrophes commonly associated with the visions of Hollywood filmmakers.
European officials are considering if there is anything more they can do to avert such catastrophes.
The other half is what "God" is doing in terms of catastrophes and the like.
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But having already rescued Sunburst from two catastrophes, Eason decided to rebuild once more.
In other words, amid the matrix of Haiti's macro-catastrophes, your own daily striving often seemed futile.
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And for all his capers and apparent catastrophes, few dispute he is seriously ambitious.
We need to devote more public resources to pay for emergency response and reconstruction from weather-related catastrophes.
There's a little bit of happy news for investors in these catastrophes: The funds have tax losses.
How would you like to go into the insurance business, collecting premiums for insuring people against catastrophes?
Stern argued that a lower discount-rate was supported by inter-generational equity and the risk of climate catastrophes.
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Christchurch is but one example of how even the wealthiest countries struggle to recover from large-scale catastrophes.
What sources of influence are we willing to take on in order to decrease and preferably eliminate such catastrophes?
Banks and insurance companies worry that global warming increases the risk of catastrophes, but also spot an opportunity.
Participating banks say borrowers with poor credit stemming from lost jobs or other financial catastrophes, for example deserve another chance.
Given this laundry list of potential catastrophes, one might reasonably ask whether a 6% yield is really sufficient.
The theory continues to be cited occasionally in discussions of how catastrophes have suddenly intervened to reshape history.
In Q1, BRK had the 2nd worst quarter in the insurance business in terms of catastrophes around the globe.
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Mr Davies alleged that the "catastrophes were in the detail" of the plans.
By being too public, you open yourself up to these kinds of catastrophes.
Catastrophes can bankrupt an insurance company, or even a whole group of insurers.
The project focused on the inter-disciplinary investigation of Holocene geological catastrophes, which are of importance for civilizations and ecosystems.
"That 'perfect storm' of a combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight, " Chertoff said.
Members of both Oracle and Artemis teams said in interviews before Thursday's accident that they practiced for catastrophes by simulating capsizes.
The reluctance to listen to a diversity of views has led to many catastrophes, and it's not just an American habit.
"I go all over the globe traveling, and there are very few things in the world that are solvable catastrophes, " he said.
In the context of catastrophes, you can run, but you cannot hide.
The second method is through a string of losses, financial catastrophes and frauds that create the perception of pitfalls looming in every direction.
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America's insurers have had some bruises of late: 2004 was the worst year for catastrophes on record, and this year will surpass that.
Economists worry about the appropriate discount rate, if any, to apply when assessing the seriousness of low-probability far-future catastrophes of very large scale.
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