Though two of the accidents occurred abroad, the string of disasters has prompted some soul-searching among promoters in this country.
The string of disasters has revived the notion — dormant since Tokyo rose from the firebombed devastation of World War II — that this city is living on borrowed time.
If the pumps have survived the string of disasters that have plagued the plant since the earthquake struck on March 10th, that should help bring things back under control.
The string of disasters led eventually to Lakhdar Brahimi's 2000 report on UN peacekeeping reform, which has brought about a number of changes.
In contrast, the string of expensive disasters in 2011, including the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, did not lead to a rise in market-wide premiums, despite costing the insurance industry $116 billion, much of it reinsured.
An overcrowded river ferry in Bangladesh capsized Sunday after colliding with a cargo vessel, killing at least 43 people in the latest in a string of disasters on the country's waterways this year.
Silverberg, for her part, said that the experience was the latest in a string of disasters marked by heroism at the hospital: "9/11, Irene, and now this".
More recent events — including the string of recent disasters in the Middle East, the scandals that have afflicted government agencies from the Secret Service and Department of Veterans Affairs, and the seemingly endless fight over domestic issues like Obamacare — have only strengthened the perception that leaders in Washington are unable to manage problems at home and abroad.
Some are questioning what more authorities could have done to prepare for this, just the latest in a string of disasters to hit the nation of more than 7,000 islands.
About 1,500 of them laid siege temporarily to the headquarters of the BGMEA, which represents 4,500 companies and has ties to top cronies in Bangladesh's duelling political dynasties (at least 25 MPs have a direct stake in the garment business).The tragedy is the latest in a string of disasters to befall Bangladesh's $20 billion garment sector, which is projected to overtake China's.
