Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In addition to its melange of news and features, the glitzy, hour-long Roll Call airs a regular segment on the FBI's Most Wanted List that, with the aid of computer graphics, profiles suspects in various disguises -- beards, glasses and hairpieces. "We provide officers with important information when they...
In the torrent of news about the California earthquake, the victims of another huge natural disaster on the opposite coast have been all but forgotten. Though the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Hugo when it smashed into South Carolina six weeks ago did not equal the damage caused by the tremor...
There is, however, plenty of frustration, most of it directed at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Citizens and local officials complain that FEMA did not act quickly enough to help the area rebound. The agency has closed all but five of 32 disaster-assistance centers after taking more than 51...
In The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe caricatured the voracious men who work 16-hour days, earn outrageous salaries that never keep pace with their desires, and consider themselves "Masters of the Universe." But Wolfe was a tourist; Lewis issues his catcalls from deep inside the jungle. At the...
Rich and poor live in different worlds. Unless government leaders can carry out reforms, their economies face financial disaster. -- Andrew Tobias on buying a car. -- The battle over Guber and Peters.