Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Least Popular Industry, Lifetime Achievement Category Big Oil struck a gusher of bad publicity again. Little more than a year after the Exxon Valdez disaster, the industry got blamed by just about everybody for rising gas and fuel prices in the wake of the Persian Gulf crisis. Oilmen denied any...
Faultiest Forecast Schools closed, people fled and disaster kits sold out as Dec. 3 approached in New Madrid, Mo., all because climate consultant Iben % Browning had predicted a major earthquake. The fateful day passed with no earth-shaking news, but there were casualties nonetheless: Browning's already dubious reputation and...
Like a Ninja Turtle conceived in disaster and destined for greatness, Schwarzenegger was born in the rubble of the Third Reich's defeat, in the Austrian village of Thal. His father was a policeman, his mother a housekeeper, and they lived in a house that had no toilet or refrigerator...
Over the years no social issue has looked so easy and proved so hard to resolve. It looked easy because merely building houses is simpler than, say, curing a deadly disease or cleansing a polluted ocean or handing out hope to the poor. But it turned out to be a...
No one knows how large a role fatigue has played in train and air disasters over the years, but the danger is undisputed. A drowsy engineer and crew were deemed the probable cause of the 1988 head-on collision of two Conrail freight trains near Thompsontown, Pa., a crash that...