Nonprofits could do the same thing, passing risk on to for-profit companies against a financial disaster from big-ticket losses that could result from a single disaster, a disease outbreak, or just having a high percentage of elderly patients needing extensive care.
Finally, c-level executives at large corporations may have been influenced by all the gloomy commentary about our economic prospects, particularly with icons such as Warren Buffett issuing jeremiads on coming disasters from our big trade deficits.
In this frightening novel, young people find a refuge from disaster in a big-box store.
It raised the question whether the world is prepared to avert the threat of a potentially much bigger disaster from a collision with a near-Earth object.
Under Luis García they have been a disaster against the big teams away from home: they have never won at the Camp Nou, the Bernabéu or the Calderón.
Rather than the problems we face coming from "big government," as some contend, the current disasters we are facing stem from the power of "big business".
Instead of honoring fallen coal miners, WVU is already accepting blood money from Big Coal barons Murray and Massey -- the companies responsible for the Crandall Canyon disaster and the Upper Big Branch disaster.
Disaster is big business, and its prophets will profit.
This was a disaster from the start.
Auchincloss was a disaster from the start.
It was a disaster from the start.
