In a few cases, even hunting for the bug can cause disaster: the National Pharmaceutical Association has reported that two pharmacies had their entire records wiped out during such tests.
It only takes one silly child or inexperienced teacher to cause a disaster.
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While modern technology and regulations have made sweeping changes to the operation and safety of ships since the Titanic, as told by Wilson, the fundamental cause of disaster is the human element.
"Without examining the bow of the boat, it is impossible to completely clarify the cause of the disaster, " he said before leaving Moscow.
There are some folks who are against raising the limit on what companies like BP have to pay if they cause an environmental disaster.
Scientists debated the cause of the disaster for some time afterwards.
Worries are growing that the ship could cause an environmental disaster if it breaks up and sheds its load of about 2, 300 tonnes of fuel.
The immediate cause of the disaster was a breakdown in the snap-together final assembly process in Toulouse that has served the company well for over 30 years.
While technical in nature -- using the word "hydrocarbon" to refer to oil, for example -- the letter depicts a process that failed to detect a potential cause of the disaster.
He said GM developers might think they would be successful by having "one form of clever genetic engineering after another", but he believed "that will be guaranteed to cause the biggest disaster environmentally of all time".
Hyperinflation can cause not only economic disaster, but also a collapse of law and order.
One problem: Digging it out could cause a global climate disaster.
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, which is looking into the cause of the shuttle disaster, gave NASA permission to release the photos because it determined they were not relevant to the probe.
In September, an Italian civil court ordered the government to pay 100 million euros in civil damages to relatives of 81 people killed in a 1980 air disaster whose cause has been attributed alternately to a bomb on board and to being caught in an aerial dogfight.
Meanwhile, a new independent report on the cause of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster places most of the blame on the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company for allowing the plant to be so vulnerable in the first place.
Yes, the US economic recovery is mediocre, but the US economy is still growing and there is almost no chance, short of some unforeseen economic disaster, that could cause the US to slip back into a double-dip recession.
It also means that whereas population growth may not be a global problem, it could often be a very nasty local one, causing conflict over local resources, especially water, and privation when politics (frequently) or natural disaster (occasionally) cause local scarcity or epidemic disease even within a wider world of abundance and improving health.
Whatever went wrong to cause or exacerbate the Concordia cruise ship disaster, most of the Concordia crew and passengers safely made it off the ship.
There are unique historic, economic and political factors, together with the recent stadium disaster, that combined to cause Port Said to pull away from the authorities in this dramatic fashion.
This provides certainty and peace of mind for those in the Gulf if there was any wonder or concern that they would not be made whole for the disaster they didn't cause.
By mid-March, traders had become convinced that the combination of the geopolitical problems and supply interruptions (as well as the potential for a nuclear disaster) in Japan would cause the global economy to slow.
Most will not loot or cause harm in the wake of a natural disaster.
And at the same time, much more basically, we must deal with the need of rebuilding Haiti, thanks to an effective decentralization policy -- namely, offering health care, education, jobs to all Haitians, men and women, regardless of where they live in the country, in order to prevent migratory flows towards the big cities, towards Port-au-Prince, and that will help avoid that disaster such as the earthquake would cause so many victims.
Lady Gaga has personally pledged her own funds to this cause and continues to support the victims of the disaster.
The most obvious cause of the implosion of the Bush presidency is the disaster in Iraq.
This would be a disaster for the AARP, but a boon to the cause of making Medicare more efficient (and thus more sustainable).
And I am sure these companies are to blame, and their CEOs do carry responsibility for the disaster, but to name and shame them as the sole cause of the misfortune seems a dangerous oversimplification.
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Then, the new shares, like water pressing down on a fault line, will cause the earth to shake, driving down the market in a man-made disaster.
In reaction to the disaster the Togolese President, Gnassingbe Eyadema, has ordered a Committee of Enquiry to investigate the cause of the black out.
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