Word: disasterous
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President Clinton nominated Henry Foster Jr., the former acting president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, to replace ex-Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders. In an Oval Office address, Clinton ordered Foster to "help America attack the epidemic of teen pregnancies and unmarried pregnancies." Administration officials said they expected Foster to...
Even as flood waters began to subside this afternoon in the Netherlands after a week of storms across northern Europe, Dutch army troops were frantically trying to reinforce below-sea-level dikes in the southeastern part of the country.The danger: more than 300 miles of ancient, water-soaked dikes have...
The idea for last summer's phenomenal hit"Forrest Gump" seemed to be a recipe for disaster,with Hanks playing the simple-minded but luckyprotagonist.
"It would be a colossal disaster for the museum," said Francis, the curator of the mineralogical museum. "It would set us back a generation."
Environmental disaster sites like Smoking Mountain show how serious the pollution problem has become in some areas of Asia, but right now, no universal quantitative scale exists to compare pollution levels among different countries.