Dave Bissonette, emergency control director in Clarence, described the crash as a "catastrophic event".
There is also little risk of a catastrophic event due to accidents or terrorism.
Not doing so would eventually lead to defaulting on Treasury bonds, a potentially catastrophic event.
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This catastrophic event was followed by multiple aftershocks, and has prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean.
The FDA concluded that even a catastrophic event at the Panamanian facility would not pose a threat.
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But in some ways what we're dealing with here is unique because it's not simply one catastrophic event.
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It is predicated off of the notion that you have a catastrophic event.
And that catastrophic event has created a response on land and on sea to deal with whatever we face.
"Even with zero fees, 2012 would be a record year unless there's a catastrophic event, " CEO Ennio Doris told Reuters.
Rocha said he was unaware of any other catastrophic event at the depot over the years it served as a munitions repository.
"Boeing was very, very lucky there was no catastrophic event, " said Schiavo.
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But as Admiral Thad Allen said today, our mobilization and response efforts have always been geared toward the possibility of a catastrophic event.
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While speculation still reigns in some quarters over the reality of a connection between carbon emissions and climate change, there is no doubt that running short of energy would be the most immediately catastrophic event for civilization.
In fact, a stock can go to zero (remember a company called Enron?) while it would take a catastrophic event (think nuclear annihilation or an asteroid hitting the earth) for the same to happen to the stock market as a whole.
And when that happens, I expect it to be a mundane, administrative detail, not a catastrophic market event.
On the other hand, coal and natural gas plants do not hold the same potential for a single catastrophic failure event.
It's been suggested that this "three metre gap" proves that dinosaurs were either extinct, or well on the way out, long before the catastrophic impact event.
As the stakes of the game have escalated, and the the dollars grown accordingly, by taking out high level disability insurance, players have begun to make sure that in the event of catastrophic injury they and their families will be taken care for the remainder of their lives.
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For many years, there was a debate about what health insurance should be a means of ensuring that a person can get care when he or she needs it, a cocoon that protects a person from any accountability for his or her health care decisions, or a backstop in the event of catastrophic health events.
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The event cancellations are likely intended to diminish the risk of future catastrophic injuries during live X Games programming.
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Meteors are a prime example of a worry-inducing event: vividly imaginable, highly publicized, novel, undetectable in advance, uncontrollable, potentially catastrophic, involuntary.
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