The first to appreciate the catastrophic effects of stress-reversals were railway engineers in the 1840s.

ECONOMIST: Aircraft fatigue

Next time, I will proffer some solutions and policies we could implement to minimize the catastrophic effects of Global warming in Africa.

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This set him thinking about the rising costs of medical care, and the catastrophic effects that sudden illness could have on a family less well provided for than his own.

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Not doing that would have calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous effects on the economy.

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It would be a war, said the information minister, Muhammad Adwan, this week, whose effects could be catastrophic.

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We can go further than that too: when the world was warmer than now we did not see massive positive feedback effects which led to catastrophic global warming.

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But sea level rise, largely the result of manmade climate change, may have effects that go far beyond catastrophic flooding: a new paper shows how higher water may lead to increased volcanic activity.

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The Obama administration's own civilian and uniformed defense leaders have warned that the effects of such a one-two punch would be catastrophic.

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Perhaps there will be psychological effects but overall the majority of people - even if there were a catastrophic incident - will not be physically affected.

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