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The effect on Berkshire's share price if Mr Buffet were to fall under a lorry or suddenly decided to retire to Tahiti would be catastrophic.

No one was hurt, but the official state report said the incident could have been catastrophic.

The speed at which this debris moves means any sort of impact with the space station would be catastrophic.

This illustration depicts how the catastrophic destruction of a star that wandered too close to a supermassive black hole may have occurred.

Rock layers (of any type) were only starting to be recognized as something other than deposits from a catastrophic, world-wide flood.

All this will be difficult, but it would be much better than a catastrophic adjustment.

But to unleash the ECB or to embrace eurobonds could precipitate a domestic crisis that would be almost as catastrophic.

But for analysts and policymakers trying to gauge the chance of a catastrophic war, game theory offers a crucial insight.

Still, it has avoided the kind of catastrophic performance that has wrecked the long-term track record of other value investors.

It is no exaggeration for me to say that the consequences of wide-spread resistance to artemisinins would be catastrophic.

'You see the possibility of a catastrophic misunderstanding, ' said the U. S. official.

The worst example of this approach was the U. S. attack on Iraq and its catastrophic consequences.

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A land area about the size of the British Isles could have to be abandoned in the wake of a catastrophic accident.

But what would Pakistan have done with a telephone call saying that there would be large and catastrophic flooding?

It was a catastrophic evening where we lost a striker after 10 minutes and there was a penalty due to a poor decision by the referee.

But he said the failures that led to a potentially catastrophic breach in security must be addressed immediately.

Such a sudden, catastrophic change is the ultimate health risk that must be avoided at all costs.

He said it would be "catastrophic" if the centre lost its fight and was forced to hand over the data.

Barack Obama said the earthquake was "a potentially catastrophic disaster" .

Catastrophic? . . . A bit of an unfortunate word?

For truly he did not foresee the catastrophic ending, and had allowed himself to be blindly compromised under promise of power & grandeur.

He said government efforts have been geared toward the possibility of a "catastrophic event. "

Bankers warned of a much more catastrophic response if it looked as though the deal would actually fail.

And by trying to shift the blame to the general populace, elites are ducking some much-needed reflection on their own catastrophic mistakes.

Rapid initiation of CPR and uninterrupted chest compression seem to be effective in case of catastrophic VAE with cardiac arrest occurred.

With spotlights searching the dark early morning sky, Poland marked the beginning of mankind's most catastrophic war.

The train was eight hours late due to the catastrophic flooding that had been enveloping much of China during our stay.

The credit crunch has undoubtedly had an effect onconfidence but so far it has not been catastrophic.

Think of it as the penalty you pay for not having enough savings to cover a catastrophic loss, and buy only what you need.

Though military action is an option, the consequences of the United States or Israel attacking Iran would be catastrophic.

In my opinion, at the moment its at the end of autumn and start of winter, it may be a catastrophic warning.

It can be very expensive to shut down a line for repairs and maintenance, but it might be catastrophic if the shutdown is unplanned.

In others, the side effects turned out to be catastrophic but weren't well-known until after the drug was widely used.

The other common aspect of all these assignments was that they were not catastrophic failures, but had developed gradually over the years.

We are still gathering information about this catastrophic earthquake, the point of impact, its effect on the people of Haiti.

But if it's not too catastrophic, our irrigation measures are effective enough to ensure the wheat harvest.

And all this has happened, so far, without catastrophic social upheavals .

For this nearly catastrophic rupture, Roosevelt was himself in large measure responsible.

Fossil fuels, which (for the time being at least) are nuclear energy's principal rival, carry the risk of catastrophic climate change.

This year has not been a catastrophic lurch into trade and currency war.

But it's hard to see how Greece could do that without triggering a catastrophic run on its banking system.

Esophageal perforation can be a catastrophic event for a patient regardless of the etiology of the perforation.

For example, suppose the Early Adopter found a tool intended to help database administrators recover from catastrophic failures.

Mr. Wagoner said in prepared remarks that if 'domestic industry were allowed to fail, the societal costs would be catastrophic.

If our government takes effective action to regulate it on the moment, the consequence would be catastrophic.

This suggests that the economic impact of a break-up would be less catastrophic than envisaged by the UBS economists.

"Change is in the air, " Besharov said in a recent interview. "The only question is whether it is catastrophic or just evolutionary. "

A study for the European Commission published last month recommended a cap on liabilities to discourage such a catastrophic outcome.

He had a catastrophic nervous breakdown in his mid-20s, poor man, and is now in sheltered accommodation in Arizona.

Server workloads will be more stable, and running out of space in a particular filesystem is likely to be more catastrophic.

Every year floods sweep across much of the land. Catastrophic tropical cyclones bring storm surges as well as murderous winds.

It seems to have lost an entire 40-kilometre-long flank in one catastrophic event, say the researchers.

If ours were a preindustrial, primarily agricultural society, extreme climate change would be obviously catastrophic.

I have my world phone, but I left word not to be disturbed unless it was a catastrophic emergency.

"We have two choices as far as I am concerned: a bad choice we all recognize, and a catastrophic choice if we do nothing, " he said.

The magnitude of both out-of-pocket and catastrophic spending on health is affected by the choice of recall period and the number of items.

Completion of the spillway was expected to reduce the risk of such a catastrophic event.

But an even better plan also will insure your collection against total and catastrophic loss in the case of a fire or larger mishap.

A simulation of the additional option of a catastrophic health plan (CHP) accompanied by a medical savings account (MSA) is presented.

For them it has become a part of their firm belief in a catastrophic ending to time, and events on Earth will seem to support it.

As the millennia passed, ancient, buried faults that had been compressed and locked tight began inching closer to catastrophic failure.

But until quite recently, they disagreed over the likelihood of a catastrophic breakup of the western ice sheet in the near future.

The WEO does not discuss the possibility of a catastrophic breakdown of the international financial system.

And trust in rising home value as a truism as reliable as a sunrise was a major contributor to the catastrophic collapse of the economy.

If the water was moving with the wave, the ocean and everything on it would be racing in to the shore with obviously catastrophic results.

More important was the profession's blindness to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy.

First, the political and economic consequences of a breakdown in relations between China and the west would be catastrophic.

With EBT, the user experience was catastrophic as the new dataset would erase any pending changes they may have had.

Of the other options, UN sanctions were not working and a conventional military strike would have catastrophic consequences.

But potentially more catastrophic is the kind of earthquake that might well up from the depths immediately below the capital.

However , there is no way to know whether the node will respond in another millisecond , or if it suffered a catastrophic failure .

The study is among the first to reveal the environmental consequences of such a catastrophic decline in species.

Since the mid-January of this year, the catastrophic blizzards and icy rains disaster has caused great losses on forestry.

"Without proper planning, the outcome could be catastrophic, and what happened in Um Al-Hayman is a small example of that, " he added.

It's visually very nice, though the "catastrophic beauty" is not even close to as beautiful as the pacific in the predecessor.

Causing offence to the Communist Party remains easy and also catastrophic for the bottom line.

Research on rotating machinery fault diagnosis is of great significance for avoiding catastrophic accidents and huge economic losses.

Rather, "the science is a wake-up call to say that we must think about different policy trajectories" to avoid catastrophic scenarios.

Given the choice, erring on the side of inflation would be less catastrophic than erring on the side of deflation.

We ask for patience at this time for crucial events are going to be set in motion which will culminate in a series of catastrophic results.

That sudden beginning, when it takes place on the slopes of a volcanic island, creates concern about a possible catastrophic flank event.

If the safety culture has broken down, the catastrophic effects. Take a second to read this.

Many do eventually get hit by one of the big four, or by other catastrophic problems, but 30 years after the rest of the population.

"The literature was always saying in that biological production would cease in a post-catastrophic environment, " Jones noted.

The war has had a catastrophic impact on this poor country and millions of people have died of starvation and disease.

Since the storage pools are not located within containment, a catastrophic radioactivity release to the environment could occur.

To help avoid catastrophic climate change, we need the large-scale, cost effective emission reductions that agriculture can deliver.

As for the catastrophic mismanagement thereafter, Mr. Blair should have insisted on far more in terms of post-war planning.

Ed Miliband, Labour leader, says he should at least apologise for this "catastrophic error of judgement" .

Traffic jams are less dramatic than catastrophic climate change , just as being mugged is less dramatic than being shot .

Vice President Gore will talk about how we could steer the climate trajectory into a lower probability of catastrophic risk.

Concentrating all of these means greater productivity, but it also means that we are inviting ever more catastrophic financial hurricanes.

As recent developments attest, no eurozone member will be allowed to default, given the catastrophic consequences that could ensue.

Some of these comets would have slammed into Earth, causing catastrophic results to life.

The only option would be a catastrophic default.

We know, too, that the oil shock may be quite important, albeit very far from catastrophic and possibly rather brief.

Such a healing medication has the potential to lessen panic and fear generated by catastrophic reactor accidents.

Had the floodgates remained closed, Army engineers say the damage to larger cities farther south would have been even more catastrophic.

But if the court did keep Germany out, the consequences would be catastrophic.

In the case of catastrophic damage, the entire cockpit section can eject from the rest of the craft.

A huge impact did in the dinosaurs, but the search for other catastrophic triggers of extinction has had no luck so far.

Acute aortic occlusion from and embolism in infective endocarditis is a rare, catastrophic vascular emergency with a grave prognosis.

Underperforming the global car sector by about 12 per cent since the end of January is far from catastrophic.

Back in the early 1990s, the country had its own, near-catastrophic banking and economic crisis.

There are fears that with the decline in financial services, external economic shocks might be catastrophic for some smaller territories.

Lord Stern said that Copenhagen presented a unique opportunity for the world to break free from its catastrophic current trajectory.

This enables the pilot to be saved from a catastrophic failure down to a reasonably low altitude.

Even the fall of Saigon was not the catastrophic blow to the US that it felt like, at the time.

It is far more likely to be a step towards a world characterised by catastrophic conflict and brutal repression.

And yet if a single catastrophic health problem impacts their family, they could be put back into poverty, sometimes for generations.

That would have profound and catastrophic affects on our society, really reverberating around the world.

across america , the american flag flew at half - staff last week in honor of the victims of this catastrophic event.

What are the consequences of a catastrophic accident in a populated area?

There is no evidence of irrigation, but such evidence could have been obliterated by repeated, catastrophic floods.

The purpose of the SPR is to dampen the effects of catastrophic supply shocks, not to ease a president's political difficulties.

If you start smoking then, you may have made not only a medical mistake but a catastrophic genetic mistake.

It bears mentioning that in the last fifty years, no navy reactor has ever had a catastrophic failure or melt down.

A rise of that magnitude would entail catastrophic and irreversible climate changes, according to scientific modelling.

Catastrophic flooding is killing people with increasing frequency, and raising the cost of maintaining infrastructure.

The epidemic of catastrophic bee losses is called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

a poison pill with potentially catastrophic implications for the company it is intended to protect.

I say "catastrophic" because carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and a ground-hugging cloud would suffocate anyone it enveloped.

If the price of aluminium falls - as it is doing - it would be catastrophic.

Military airplanes can be subjected to simulated battle damage so that studies can be made of possible catastrophic effects.

In 1894-95 China suffered a catastrophic defeat at the hands of Japan, which had adopted western military technology.

The costs, as I said, are catastrophic.

However, North Korea is backing away from earlier threats of a catastrophic response to the exercise.

Moreover, these costs should be set against the benefits of lessening the risk of crises that would inflict catastrophic losses.

Today, a catastrophic event takes down thousands of websites, causing millions or even billions of dollars in lost revenue and productivity.

That could have all sorts of catastrophic consequences, like causing the sea to rise and creating weird weather patterns.

The only other scenario for IMF intervention should be the catastrophic one.

The contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic.

In the short term, appointing Sculley looked like the defining, catastrophic error of Jobs's life.

There is going to be a major cycle shift on the earth and the result will be catastrophic tidal waves, earthquakes, etc.

As they scramble to find ways to repair the damages there must be acceptance that the demands for oil lead to this catastrophic event.

In the last, the corresponding suggestions were put forward on the catastrophic impact of the blown-wind activity.

But unless it proves to be the first in a string of bad decisions, it need not be catastrophic.

The only thing preventing this catastrophic action is the strength of the dam itself.

Had the floodgates remainedcloseclosed, Army engineers say the damage to larger cities farther south would have been even more catastrophic.

"God willing, news is not true. Catastrophic if it is authentic, " another wrote.

Easily revert to a previously known configuration, should a catastrophic failure occur in the primary production environment.

Summary of Background Data. VAI is a rare complication of cervical spine surgery, but it may be catastrophic.

Even in a catastrophic situation like this, we keep calm.

These were essentially put options, with limited upside and a low but real probability of catastrophic losses.

Indeed, even the failure of AIG would have been catastrophic -- so you can't even limit the list of systemically important firms to banks.

Catastrophic rains have become more frequent in Brazil (and elsewhere). But much of the blame for the high death toll lies closer to earth.

Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic.

This paper does some discussions on the issues of the catastrophic events during the course of the dissemination of the communication.

But this has not had a catastrophic effect on stock prices: the Taiex is flat for the year, lagging Asia ex-Japan by only 3 per cent.

This catastrophic defeat led to the area coming under Turkish rule for the next 150 years.

The state has also nationalised two mortgage lenders and is proposing to insure banks' toxic assets against catastrophic losses.

The Amazonian rainforest is likely to suffer catastrophic damage even with the lowest temperature rises forecast under climate change.

Whoever did take it would surely manage in a way that minimised the risk of catastrophic failure.

But a catastrophic problem with the build destroyed any systems that upgraded from Windows XP, requiring complete reinstallations.

No one was really sure what that would do, but many suggested catastrophic problems ranging from vast blackouts to nuclear holocaust.

Globally implemented low-carbon economy, therefore, is proposed as a means to avoid catastrophic climate change.

The fault and crush zone is the very difficult and catastrophic sector of the tunnel during the course of excavation and support.

Not surprisingly, more investors are now willing to give up some upside for the promise of protection against catastrophic losses.

This sort of error may lead to catastrophic results.

Allograft renal vein thrombosis (RVT) is an uncommon but potentially catastrophic complication.

Using the extrapolated catastrophic model the parameters about future network anomalous behaviors can be calculated conveniently.

Given consumer anxiety, the risk of a catastrophic government failure, however small, isn't helping.

Without precise calculations, a ship may collide with a body in hyperspace with catastrophic results.

All this, Jake had told us, had happened before: the catastrophic events are cyclic.

THE good news is that the world seems to have dodged a catastrophic banking collapse.

These characteristics reduce the chance for catastrophic results stemming from inconsistency and lack of transaction isolation.

Whether or not it portends catastrophic consequences for us here on earth is subjective until that happen.

if biased optimism, the system will be safe and stable operation of the catastrophic dangers buried.

"Human to human transmission would be a catastrophic event, " she says.

In the event of another catastrophic attack, India might be less cautious.

"If we get distracted, even for a few seconds, that could be catastrophic, " a Maryland police spokesman told theTimes.

Pakistan has just experienced both extreme heat and catastrophic floods; Russia has been scorched by heatwave and its forests incinerated.

It was created by a catastrophic collision between our planet and a Mars-size body over 4 billion years ago.

The negotiations are aimed at avoiding what analysts say would be an economically catastrophic US debt default on 2 August.

What happens if the hosting provider goes out of business or suffers a catastrophic failure?

The fact that the speech was catastrophic (not one laugh) made me feel bad for several weeks afterwards.

Unfortunately, a large portion of us have not become aware of the catastrophic consequences of these issues.

And now catastrophic fires sweeping Russia give a taste of what climate change may bring to that bread basket.

The Leaders express their continuing commitment to assist these countries to fully recover from the catastrophic effects of the disaster.

As catastrophic as regime collapse would be, it pales next to the prospect of coming under nuclear attack.

With the country threatening both South Korea and Japan, any military action could have catastrophic effects on global capital markets.

Igor, capable of causing catastrophic damage, posed no imminent threat to land or energy interests.

From the planet's point of view that would mean a huge, and possibly catastrophic, increase in overall emissions.

But Mr Amano added his voice to those nuclear experts playing down the risk of a catastrophic event.

The whole affect is to bring more harmony and balance into being, thus lessening the need for changes of a catastrophic nature.

"There is little time left. The opportunity and responsibility to avoid catastrophic climate change is in your hands, " Mr. Ban said.

You can tell if you're making mistakes as a leader because things go wrong -- not just one catastrophic computer snafu but repeated errors.

Rerun the test, with all other components of the example remaining the same. The result is a catastrophic test failure, as shown below.

The rescue of AIG was justified on the grounds that letting it fail would have been catastrophic for financial markets.

Both China and Iran are in seismically active areas, have very long historical records, and have had many catastrophic earthquakes.

The Democrats described it as a "catastrophic blow" to "one country two systems" .

In the era of Atlantis, six smaller bombs were detonated and were not quite as catastrophic, as a nuclear winter was not created.

This technique, however, has a potential risk of vertebral artery, spinal cord, and nerve root injuries, which may be catastrophic.

If he ignored the shelling, leaving his supporters to flee or be killed, the loss of prestige would be catastrophic.

I spent most of my time in the days that followed watching and listening for signs of a catastrophic economic slowdown.

We have to chose, either global warming and never ending catastrophic climate changes with fossil fuels, or nuclear energy.

And climate caused famines, economic downturns, and catastrophic human events far more often than did any of the other 14 variables.

Short-term risks of vaginal birth after cesarean can be potentially catastrophic in the setting of uterine rupture.

Double-standard Execution The practice to allow local standard and action beyond global criteria brings catastrophic consequences.

But she took a catastrophic wrong turn and eventually ended up 900 miles away in Zagreb, Croatia .

I am deeply saddened for my Japanese colleagues and friends, who have suffered such a catastrophic event.

Rapid economic growth may lead to an overexploitation of resources and eventually lead to a catastrophic financial meltdown.

Catastrophic health payments analysis is an important part of health equity research.

Higher deductibles encourage consumers to become price-conscious for routine care, while insurance kicks in for catastrophic expenses.

Numbers showing the economy contracting again would be catastrophic for Mr Brown and the Labour Party.

Default by a state would be painful but not catastrophic.

the subsidy funds and the catastrophic risk reserve should be planned as a whole in Shandong.

This video from Silence of the Bees (Nature, PBS) explains the potentially catastrophic problems we face as pollinators die off.

A double-star combination like (a|b*)* is a sure-fire recipe for catastrophic backtracking.

Although neither scenario is likely, I believe that Catastrophic Collapse represents the greater risk.

The unemployment insurance operation lacks predictive accuracy and faces the possibility of catastrophic losses.

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Darling said yesterday, RBS acquisition of ABN AMRO Bank is the "catastrophic" for.

Yet, by the harsh standards of natural disasters, Chernobyl was not especially catastrophic.

Instead, the Nazca endured resource wars and their civilisation eventually suffered a "catastrophic" collapse.

Planning in advance should help to avoid potentially catastrophic misunderstandings.

Most genuinely believe that a failure to achieve an international agreement in Copenhagen would be catastrophic.

Catastrophic cases involving AIDS, drug abuse, victims of violence, and premature infants are overcrowding some hospitals.

Uncontrolled fires can spread quickly to flammable materials and explosives, causing catastrophic results.

Occasionally an error may have catastrophic effects, as we see when 'human error' results in a plane crash or nuclear plant leak.

Looking to the future, when the hurricane season hits in May, if people are still living like this, the outcome will be catastrophic.

The dam builders underestimate the risks of a catastrophic landslide.

That is not so far off the figure of 44 gigatonnes needed to avoid catastrophic global warming.

Its very irregular shape suggests that the asteroid was derived from a larger body by nearly catastrophic collisions .

Most scientists agree that beyond some critical threshold, climate change is irreversible and probably catastrophic.

You cannot yet conceive the level of catastrophic activities that will befall through the cleansing actions of the planet.

Certainly, any catastrophic errors should go into the event log, because this information can be used later to diagnose the problem.

To avoid such catastrophic situations, you need to continuously monitor server health and reconfigure it to perform at an optimum level.

Studied the catastrophic collapse of surface land induced by mining under a shallow and hard strata by numerical simulation.

But clearly, the chance of a catastrophic accident is bigger than merely non-trivial.

Muscadet suffered catastrophic losses to spring frosts, which also wrought damage on a smaller scale elsewhere in the region.

Experts fear that even if the reservoir water level to restore the previous level of Fisher, but the fish would be catastrophic.

By following those procedures and limiting taxpayer exposure, policymakers can reduce the risk of Catastrophic Collapse.

Computers linked to al Qaeda had acquired various computer "cracking" tools, with the intent of inflicting catastrophic harm.

Even a total halt would be far from catastrophic.

Treasury officials have said this would be "catastrophic. "

Now the city is home to millions, and when the next major quake hits, the results will be catastrophic.

The safety problem of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) has been discussed due to its catastrophic consequences.

Thereby, we can predict the catastrophic collapse by means of monitoring the small displacement of the slope.

Even a minute change at times can bring catastrophic results.

The consequences of the disrupted ecological balance are catastrophic, so it is imperative to conserve endangered species.

"The opportunity and responsibility to avoid catastrophic climate change is in your hands. "

The chance of a catastrophic release of methane from frozen sub -sea stores at high latitudes is also rated low.

We continue to populate our planet with systems that have catastrophic potential despite the known risks.

Should we follow a precautionary principle in robotics research, to slow or halt work until we have addressed possible catastrophic risks?

The mass extinction of organisms and the sedimentary environment mutation are due to the catastrophic event.

Catastrophic equipment failure will likely have immediate serious consequences.

To protect the Euro and prevent potentially catastrophic defaults, the Eurogroup will almost certainly issue further loans.

Earthquake is a nature disastrous phenomenon which causes casualty and catastrophic losses to human society and economy.

At best, an IT organization can simply react tactically to risks (e. g. , catastrophic technical failures) after the fact.