Of course, banks are the most heavily regulated sectors of the economy, yet all that oversight didn't avert disaster.
One deadbeat client made cash flow tight but wasn't a disaster.
McKenna recalls some advice a teammate once gave him: We didn't create this disaster, so we shouldn't feel guilty for the pain it causes people.
But badly governed or militarily weak allies haven't led to disaster in the past.
Administration officials said that while agency heads didn't meet for Disaster Preparedness Commission meetings, they did participate in five emergency training exercises in 2012.
In the 2007 poll, Mason-Dixon found that slightly more than half the respondents didn't feel vulnerable to hurricanes and didn't have a disaster plan.
They grabbed the attention of world leaders who suddenly realized, you know, this isn't just another disaster, this is a massive catastrophe happening right before our eyes and something needs to be done about it.
Last month's figures weren't the runaway disaster many had feared, but that only shows how rough things have become, as the U.S. economy deals with the twin problems of inflation and a slowdown. (See: "CPI Shows Inflation Is Still Chugging") In particular, energy prices have spiked by 15.9% over the past year, and food prices have gone up an eye-opening 5.1%.
He'd changed his mind: There was no way this wouldn't be a tort disaster.
In the Gulf of Mexico, BP hadn't suffered a safety disaster until the Deepwater Horizon.
Don't let the BP disaster scare you away from oilfield services.
But what I want to tell you is cooperation works better when there is no disaster, and if you don't have cooperation, you have the makings of a disaster.
Such doubts are being found even in people who weren't directly affected by the disaster.
Even some Democrats thought the election of Redmond wouldn't be much of a disaster.
Markel was tapped by the CDC to study what worked and what didn't during the 1918 flu disaster.
In a packed federal courtroom Monday afternoon, BP attorney Mike Brock said blame for the disaster wasn't the oil company's alone.
The 2 August deadline isn't an automatic trigger for disaster.
"V for Vendetta" wasn't meant to be a disaster movie, of course, and there's no reason to think it will be a disaster, even though its original opening date of November 5th -- Guy Fawkes Day -- had to be pushed forward after real-life terrorists attacked London last July.
Americans buy auto and homeowners insurance in case of disaster but don't mind paying for routine car and home repairs.
These days, he is preoccupied with such issues as pollution and genetic manipulation: the vanishing dodo in his Dodon't is a comment on DNA disaster.
People don't degenerate into wild animals when disaster strikes.
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.
If European leaders and the voters who elect them glean the right lessons from history and manage to steer their continent away from the edge of the cliff, then we won't see a repeat of that disaster of a global crash.
"He used to say a downgrade would be a disaster, today he says this downgrade doesn't matter - but he is still warning a further downgrade really would be a disaster, " he said.
And I think that it's a recipe for disaster because you can't continue to control supply.
"Ever since the disaster, I haven't had a day when I felt good about myself, " he says.
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