The first big wave of deregulation took place under Ronald Reagan — and quickly led to disaster, in the form of the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s.
But the villagers are unanimous in saying that the greatest threat facing Namai now is natural disaster – in the form of cyclones, storms, floods and drought.
Glass was working with a company of trappers who included Fitzgerald when disaster, in the form of a raid by Native Americans, struck.
Glass was working with a company of trappers — who included Fitzgerald — when disaster, in the form of a raid by Native Americans, struck.
In the 2010 Haitian earthquake, press reports raised concerns of child trafficking from that disaster in the form of illegal adoptions to, perhaps, well-meaning families in the northern hemisphere, as well as internal trafficking of children into domestic slavery.
Unlike the accident in the Ukraine, events at Fukushima in March 2011 were not the result of ineptitude but rather a massive natural disaster in the form of a deadly 15-metre high tsunami.
Thatcher's first years at Downing Street were fraught, and her prospects of re-election looked precarious in the spring of 1982, when disaster, in the form of the Argentine seizure of the Falklands, turned into her greatest triumph — with no help from Washington, at least to begin with, and in particular none from Jeane Kirkpatrick.
Neither is it unusual for bad things to happen to a lot of good people all at once, whether it's a pestilence, as in the cholera epidemic of 1849, whether it's a natural disaster in the form of a hurricane in Galveston or whether it's a fire like in Chicago in 1871.
In Central Thailand basic health care services were affected by a natural disaster in the form of a flood situation.
