"Weakness will continue for a while" because of the catastrophes, the cabinet office said in a statement, which was noticeably more bleak than the assessment it issued soon after the quake in March.
"I think because of the political catastrophe in France – Pétain and the disaster of collaboration.
Because of the impending catastrophe, school was cancelled Monday, and perhaps indefinitely.
A.I.G., for decades the largest insurance company in the world, must now sell wide swaths of its businesses to repay the government loan, made because of the potential catastrophe that the company's bankruptcy would have unleashed.
Wei Zhaofeng, an energy official in China, which is now reconsidering its plans for nuclear power because of the Fukushima catastrophe, said recently: "We have to ensure 100percentt safety of these nuclear power plants".
We speculate that because of the metabolic catastrophe induced by excessive autophagy, EIG121 is eliminated from advanced carcinomas.
This is a prime example of a totally unexpected corporate event that cannot be absorbed or turned around immediately, because of the unprecedented magnitude of the catastrophe.
While not predicting a similar fate here, Mr. Asai says Japan is doomed because few people understand the scale of the catastrophe that awaits the country.
I have often marvelled at the scale of the catastrophe not only because of what it reminds us about the perils of demagoguery, but also for how recent it all was.
The consequences of the catastrophe were devastating, mainly because of the loss of people's property and belongings: around 70% of Armenian houses were destroyed and in some neighboring towns the percentage was greater than 80%.
