This is also a day to examine our lives and consider what more we can do to help – to reach out to people enduring conflict, disaster and hardship.
These costs include coddling dictators like Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, maintaining a large military presence in the Persian Gulf region, and enduring environmental disasters like the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.
In addition to enduring a technological disaster that nearly derailed President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, users complained of slow performance and a confusing system that required them to re-enter the same information over and over again and frequently lost data they'd already inputted.
The Ferris wheel that never turned has become an enduring symbol of the disaster.
KARACHI, Pakistan — Even as the government and international relief workers struggle to get food and clean water to millions of flood-stricken Pakistanis, concerns are growing about the enduring toll of the disaster on the nation's overall economy, food supply and political stability.
When "Morning Star" opened on Broadway in 1940, featuring the Yiddish theater star Molly Picon and a young Sidney Lumet, its portrait of a Jewish widow stoically enduring the death and disaster brought by the major events of recent history (from 1910 to 1931) sent a hopeful message to audiences desperately in need of one.
They believe that when Dow bought Union Carbide, the firm that did own and run the plant at the time, it also also inherited an obligation to put right the enduring environmental damage the disaster did to Bhopal and its people, up to 25,000 of whom they claim have died as result of it.
Part of it is the unpopular presidency of George W. Bush, which ended in financial disaster and enduring conflicts in the Middle East.
Or was 2003 a disaster for you enduring Daredevil, Boat Trip, The Cat in the Hat, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Dumb and Dumberer?
