Another traces the effects on the circus community of a calamitous flood, delivering in the process some of the book's most arresting imagery: "That night, the animals screamed.
In fact, federal spending on the recovery effort led to an increase in employment at the end of 2008 at a time when unemployment was rising in the rest of the country.I suspect that if the fair city of London were to suffer a calamitous flood, The Economist would be conscientious in describing the positive as well as the negative aspects of its subsequent recovery.
The waters from the calamitous floods in Europe last month have receded.
First, the calamitous floods in eastern Germany allowed Mr. Schröder to respond like an energetic leader.
Wretched, also, to have fallen victim to calamitous flooding in 2002, 2003 (twice), 2006 and 2007.
Despite calamitous floods (1630, 1668), pestilences, famines, and earthquakes (chiefly 1824, 1853), much of the city has survived.
Thailand, meanwhile, has recovered rapidly from calamitous flooding in 2011.However, developing Asia faces a challenge more fundamental than riding out another cyclical downturn in the West.
Here, in this refuge for the survivors of this country's calamitous floods, there are thousands of homeless families, but only six tents and two latrines.
The calamitous floods that struck England in 1947, by contrast, were over much more quickly.Fingers have been pointed at the government, for squeezing the Environment Agency's budget.
The rise was less than the 15,000 expected by many economists, and unemployment actually fell by 7,000 in the depressed east, where the government put unemployed people to work cleaning up after last month's calamitous floods.
Even though there had been calamitous flooding along the lower Mississippi a decade earlier, only a handful of states and cities along the rivers had flood-control systems, while the federal government, adhering to a narrow interpretation of its constitutional powers, had built few flood-control levees or walls, and then mostly along the lower Mississippi.
