Granted iPhone sales were slightly under what the sell-side analysts would like, but relative to expectations it was no calamity.

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After two centuries violating market principles, Haiti had no resistance to calamity and no means for rejuvenation.

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That calamity would require no more liquid natural gas supply, loss of all imports via Belgium and Netherlands, and a loss of half of current UK production.

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In her mind, a woman with no child could be explained only by vast untrammelled calamity.

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Congress and the regulators have shown the major financial firms more clearly even than before that greed and high risk activities carry no risk for them, that if they lead to disaster the calamity will fall on others, while the financial firms will be rescued and probably even rewarded, coming out the other side bigger and more profitable than ever.

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No doubt the Chinese economic engine will shake off the effects of the latest calamity.

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