Nonetheless, the officials said that the research had been exhaustive enough to base their recommendations on it and to find out, as Mayor Bloomberg phrased it, what worked and what did not, to better prepare for any future cataclysm.
By rights, no politician intimately responsible for such a cataclysm should survive with any kind of reputation intact.
The stakes are high: failure to agree on the former would prompt the government to suspend all but its most basic functions; neglecting the latter would entail defaulting on America's debts.Republican leaders say they want to avoid any such cataclysms, but are also insisting on cuts.
Or perhaps more aptly the Mt. St. Helens of books, since it seemed possible that at any moment some subterranean shift in it might cause a cataclysm.
Well, this is a cataclysm".
LUMET: It was a cataclysm.
That crisis was a cataclysm.
To Edward, the discovery is a cataclysm.
Family life, a cataclysm of solitudes.
Others spoke of a "cataclysm" and a "bombshell".
