Because we are suckers, that's why, and the folks who swindled us into this disaster can count on it.
But the estimate of "a few thousand" deaths from that disaster only counts the direct casualties of radiation.
"I remember hearing that … this was going to be a disaster," noted Counts, an associate of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
To investigate the impact of ADL status and its deterioration on time of admission for pulmonary disease after the disaster, we counted the number of patients who were 'originally dependent', 'newly dependent' or 'independent throughout' in each of the 10-day bins (figure 4).
The NCEI, which operate under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, releases a report each year totalling the damage done by natural disasters and counting the number of disasters with more than $1 billion in damage.
As with so much else in the world of disaster relief, methods count as much as magnitudes.
At this point it doesn't much matter why Dean got the plum spot, he's been a disaster on every count for the party except on the money.
This could be a disaster on two counts for the Republicans.
What seems more likely, and more bizarre in its own way, is that Pardew has instead been neither particularly good nor particularly bad, neither a semi-concealed disaster nor a count-your-blessings success.
A few quarters of recession, a sudden inflationary spike, or a natural disaster, and poverty counts skyrocket--and stay sky-high for years.
