Echoing last year's battle over aid to the flood-ravaged Midwest, the White House is criticizing House Republicans for politicizing important issues like disaster relief and military support.
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And we believe that we were underweighted, as you went south, given the importance of those sea lanes, given, by the way, the important contribution we make to things like disaster relief.
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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.
On the surface, the upcoming season looks like a disaster for the New York Mets.
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This looks like cheap disaster insurance, or a cheap wager on a market crash.
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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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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.
In a great disaster like this one, victims are first concerned with their basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, medical care.
"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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As far as I know fiasco is when something breaks, like a natural disaster, this is something far greater -- this is utter madness.
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.
No disaster like Nokia, Motorola and Research in Motion but nevertheless destined to sell at 10 times flattish earnings, just another electronics hardware operator.
One of her first jobs was in Liverpool, where she spent five years learning to be a reporter and producer, covering stories like the Hillsborough disaster.
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?
Since the reactors would not be pressurized, radioactivity would not be expelled as widely into the environment as in an accident like the Fukushima disaster, Wilson said.
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.
Even what look like post-disaster success stories are ambiguous.
Blankfein protected Goldman from becoming another disaster like AIG.
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.
"It's a tragedy when you see a natural disaster like that take place, so many innocent people that are certainly affected, if not directly by injury or possibly loss of life, " Boston manager John Farrell said.
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.
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