On the surface, the upcoming season looks like a disaster for the New York Mets.
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Formally, and despite what Soderbergh has told interviewers, the picture looks less like a disaster movie than like an international thriller.
Today's markets may look like a disaster, but savvy investors know the carnage offers a golden opportunity to find money in the streets.
For billionaires Leon Black, Joshua Harris and Marc Rowan, co-founders of Apollo Global Management LyondellBasell and other chemical investments that looked like a disaster not so long ago are now helping motor the legendary private equity firm to its own IPO.
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As far as I know fiasco is when something breaks, like a natural disaster, this is something far greater -- this is utter madness.
It is easy to become obsessed with watching the markets like a viewer of disaster movies, ever hoping for a large explosion and spectacular fiery demise.
The spark is almost always related to deep mistrust of police combined with an incident like a beating, a natural disaster, or a fatal shooting.
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How could all this add up to an acceptance when it appears like a recipe for disaster?
When one or both of those are interrupted, like during a natural disaster, the weakness of the JIT system is exposed.
Heavy concentration in the stock of a single employer with no voting or managerial rights, I wrote, sounded like a recipe for disaster.
Just when cloud computing might have seemed like a welcome solution to disaster recovery planning in Japan, Amazon suffered a major outage that affected hundreds of customers.
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Longevity and inertia ensure that even a disaster like Fukushima cannot wipe it from the world.
The Joplin Chamber of Commerce stresses that the economic effects of a disaster like this can affect communities for years.
"It's hard enough to go through a disaster like this on your own, " says Geoffrey Porges, the biotech analyst at Sanford C.
Legal questions aside, what should you do if your boss is hounding you to come back to work after a disaster like Sandy?
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But we can only pursue offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a disaster like the BP oil spill will not happen again.
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One would think that a disaster like Flordia's would prompt the State Board to reconsider whether it should be in the business of managing money.
But considering how rare a disaster like this is, especially in comparison to car crashes, it raises the question, which mode of transportation is truly the safest?
We are committed to making sure that a disaster like Katrina does not happen again. (Applause.) And that means in Washington, a focus on competence and accountability.
So I think people will be looking very closely at the systems that are in place when a disaster like this occurs to actually get the funds out to the families very quickly.
For New Orleans' mayor Ray Nagin, the psyche of the people is the most critical issue when it comes to recovering from a disaster like Katrina, which devastated more than 90, 000 square miles of land and claimed about 1, 800 lives.
Events unfold like a slow-motion disaster.
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"There are emotional and physical stresses associated with a disaster like this that go beyond the cost of the building blowing down and the home blown away and the family letters and pictures that will never be seen again, " he said.
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But the administration clearly needs to establish clearer lines of authority for what goes on in the Gulf, and the government must proceed to take every action it can to ensure that the other oil companies, along with BP, put their money where their mouth is and ensure as far as humanly possible that a disaster like this one does not occur again.
In a great disaster like this one, victims are first concerned with their basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, medical care.
The BP oil disaster is like a signal flare warning us that we must reduce our oil use via investments in more efficient, cleaner energy technologies.
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