There is nothing like a crisis or a catastrophe to focus the mind.
Professor EDWARD BLAKELY (University of Sydney): Well, a lot of wisdom and that is how to organize the bureaucracy to respond to a disaster or a catastrophe of this scale.
But the federal government has to make sure that if there's this once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe or a once-in-a-decade catastrophe that we're helping each other.
It is irresponsible to make one that is absolutely unbreakable, even in the face of an economic depression or other national catastrophe.
It could be that we end in a catastrophe or that we are transformed by taking much greater control over our biology.
Neither was a reaction to catastrophe or to a sharp economic downturn.
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Russia will be posturing as a heavyweight, as a country that can actually save the world from a huge international crisis or maybe a catastrophe.
There is no way to fill in the space between the spines so that they are proof against catastrophe, or easily fixable at any point of failure.
So if we don't pursue a different strategy, I fear we're going to wind up with this catastrophe sooner or later and with the cost to the United States being much, much greater.
Of course, a major global economic catastrophe, or some new breakthrough in energy or agricultural technology, could bring prices down precipitously, but for the most part demographic trends seem likely to favor commodity producers over the coming decade or two.
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But we must solve this question as soon as possible or there will be a catastrophe.
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While no-one really knows whether this storm will create chaos or full-scale national catastrophe, the political effects are already being felt.
But given the short-term catastrophe that would follow from one or more countries leaving the euro, that is not something any serving UK politician is likely to wish for any time soon.
Many of the people that will contribute to it have already been born, so short of some catastrophe that kills off large numbers of people, or some Viagra-fuelled leap in birth rates, population numbers and age composition can be predicted with fair accuracy for decades ahead.
Not just a setback or bump, mind you, but an earth-splitting millennial catastrophe.
However, after major events the market eventually discounts improved catastrophe reinsurance pricing and the stock perform in line with or better than the market.
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Given the time it would take to clear up any disaster, he says, Brazil may block BP or delay the offshore drilling as they are eager to avoid any catastrophe in 2014 and 2016 when the nation will be in the world spotlight for the FIFA World Cup and the summer Olympics.
One might presume that Krawcheck had been in a position to exercise some control over, or to at least call someone's attention to, the looming catastrophe.
And barring a catastrophe, like a forced default on US debt, in another year or so we should be back, big time.
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In the event of a catastrophe, one can easily and quickly recover individual files, entire folders, or restore the complete system to a point in time.
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Well I mean firstly there's this problem about all the aid agencies are worried that there's going to be a huge human catastrophe, they can't get food across there, in about two or three weeks the snow's going to fall, the passes will be blocked.
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We hardly have the vocabulary to describe a cornball love story, built around images of catastrophe startling enough to make your eyes pop, that isn't just swoony or awesome but, in fact, profound.
One of the earliest exotic assets was the catastrophe bond, the provision of back-up capital to insurance companies dealing with earthquakes or hurricanes.
Rightly or wrongly, they are united in the belief that letting Greece go it alone would be a catastrophe - for Greece and for the eurozone.
The catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf right now may prove to be a result of human error, or of corporations taking dangerous shortcuts to compromise safety, or a combination of both.
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